Table 4.

Odds Ratio of Having One or More Home Health Visits (n=4,613)

Enrollee Characteristic	SES Only	SES+Health	SES+Health+Demographic Characteristics
Income
Living below the poverty threshold	1.06	1.01	0.97
Assets
Lowest tertile of nonhousing assets	1.97***	1.40**	1.42**
Mid-tertile of nonhousing assets	1.57***	1.28	1.23
Not owning a home	1.42***	1.17	1.03
Education
Not having a high school degree or G.E.D.	1.12	0.95	0.88
Health
Mean score on SF-36 Physical Health 10-item subscale		0.98***	0.98***
Mean score on SF-12 Mental Health 6-item summary scale		0.98***	0.98***
Mean number of symptoms experienced in past 4 weeks		1.07**	1.08**
Having diabetes		1.60***	1.64***
History of fractured or broken hip		1.74**	1.55*
Age
Age 80 to 84			1.79***
Age 85 or older			1.93***
Sex
Female			0.82
Race
African American			1.17
Family Structure
Living with a spouse or partner			0.80
One or more living sons			1.06
One or more living daughters			0.86
Health Insurance History
Having lacked health insurance all or most of the time since age 18			1.22
Having belonged to an HMO in the past			1.07
Not knowing whether have belonged to an HMO in the past			0.83
Design Variables
Months of enrollment after interview months			1.04
Midwestern HMO (Plan A)			0.66***
Log-likelihood	−1,620.6	−146.5	−1,446.2
χ2, d.f.		306.2***, 5	42.6***, 12

All numbers are weighted. Chi-squares (χ²) and degrees of freedom (d.f.) are for the test between the model shown in the column and the model on the left.

^*p<.10;

^**p<.05;

^***p<.01.