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 | |
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| 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
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