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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Soc Behav. 2023 Sep 7;65(1):2–19. doi: 10.1177/00221465231194043

Table 4.

Associations between Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use among Men, Odds Ratios

Visited a doctor in past year Has a personal doctor Flu shot in past year Ever had a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy Ever tested for HIV Visited dentist in past year Ever had a PSA test

Structural sexism 0.98 0.91* 1.02 0.93** 0.85*** 1.00 1.06**
Age 1.04*** 1.05*** 1.03*** 1.06*** 0.98*** 1.01*** 1.09***
Race (ref: White)
  Black 1.79*** 1.07* 0.90*** 1.15*** 3.02*** 0.94** 1.45***
  AIAN 1.26*** 0.79*** 1.00 0.71*** 1.75*** 0.99 0.76***
  Asian 1.32*** 1.05 1.40*** 0.58*** 0.51*** 0.82*** 0.51***
  NHPI 1.33** 1.21 1.08 0.71* 0.84 0.80* 0.59***
  Other race 0.93 0.72*** 0.80** 0.76** 1.67*** 0.89 0.82*
  Multiracial 1.06 0.93 1.02 0.94 1.58*** 0.79*** 0.83**
  Hispanic 1.25*** 0.79*** 1.12*** 0.86*** 1.23*** 1.28*** 0.99
Education (ref: <HS)
  High school degree 1.15*** 1.29*** 0.99 1.36*** 1.07* 1.39*** 1.46***
  Some college 1.22*** 1.46*** 1.16*** 1.78*** 1.38*** 1.67*** 1.92***
  College degree 1.20*** 1.58*** 1.69*** 2.22*** 1.49*** 2.43*** 2.43***
Married/in a couple 1.07*** 1.20*** 1.12*** 1.40*** 0.75*** 1.19*** 1.27***
Income 1.00*** 1.00*** 1.00*** 1.00*** 1.00 1.00*** 1.00***
Insurance 3.66*** 4.27*** 2.58*** 2.75*** 1.07** 2.03*** 1.82***
Parent 0.87*** 0.97* 0.94*** 0.67*** 1.29*** 0.90*** 0.61***
Self-rated health 0.83*** 0.88*** 0.92*** 0.91*** 0.89*** 1.21*** 1.01
Intercept 0.18*** 0.16* 0.09*** 0.02*** 0.44 0.13*** 0.0005***
Level 2 variance (SE) 0.03*** (0.01) 0.08*** (0.02) 0.03*** (0.01) 0.03*** (0.01) 0.03*** (0.01) 0.01*** (0.003) 0.01*** (0.003)
N 158,644 159,469 155,392 95,317 146,983 159,048 110839
*

all models control for state-level measures of poverty rate, Gini coefficient, racial composition, and southern region

***

p<0.001

**

p<0.01

*

p<0.05