Table 2.
Unweighted summary statistics for use of preventive and curative care.
| Curative Care Visits | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level | Sample (n = 46497) |
Use of preventive care (n = 2539)a |
First health problem (n = 8152)a |
Second health problem (n = 904)a |
|
| Predisposing factors | |||||
| Age in years: mean (SD) | Individual | 26.98 (20.67) | 22.97 (21.24) | 28.47 (23.65) | 38.85 (26.05) |
| Sex (%) | Individual | ||||
| Male | 49.50 | 42.69 | 46.69 | 41.70 | |
| Female | 50.50 | 57.31 | 53.31 | 58.30 | |
| Ethnicity (%) | Household | ||||
| Mestizo | 84.93 | 87.83 | 89.40 | 89.60 | |
| Indigenous | 9.20 | 5.44 | 5.81 | 4.20 | |
| Others | 5.87 | 6.73 | 4.78 | 6.19 | |
| Marital status (%) | Individual | ||||
| Living w/partner | 11.15 | 8.31 | 10.38 | 13.27 | |
| Married | 26.74 | 25.68 | 29.24 | 35.29 | |
| Separated/divorced | 3.75 | 3.03 | 4.39 | 6.19 | |
| Widow | 2.94 | 2.48 | 4.33 | 10.73 | |
| Single | 55.41 | 60.50 | 51.66 | 34.51 | |
| Enabling factors | |||||
| Area of residence (%) | Census segment | ||||
| Urban | 50.50 | 62.86 | 57.69 | 61.62 | |
| Rural | 49.50 | 37.14 | 42.31 | 38.38 | |
| Assets quintile (%) | Household | ||||
| 1 | 23.74 | 11.22 | 18.02 | 16.92 | |
| 2 | 21.32 | 16.19 | 21.22 | 23.01 | |
| 3 | 19.29 | 19.85 | 21.17 | 21.90 | |
| 4 | 18.14 | 21.54 | 20.61 | 20.02 | |
| 5 | 17.51 | 31.19 | 18.98 | 18.14 | |
| Consumption quintile (%) | Household | ||||
| 1 | 24.84 | 14.14 | 19.09 | 17.26 | |
| 2 | 21.27 | 14.81 | 20.82 | 21.02 | |
| 3 | 19.57 | 18.75 | 21.07 | 20.91 | |
| 4 | 18.22 | 24.22 | 20.73 | 23.12 | |
| 5 | 16.10 | 28.08 | 18.29 | 17.70 | |
| Educational level (%) | Individual | ||||
| None | 21.56 | 30.25 | 30.61 | 28.21 | |
| Elementary | 44.77 | 30.33 | 40.42 | 44.47 | |
| High School | 25.53 | 27.18 | 21.74 | 19.91 | |
| College | 8.04 | 12.13 | 7.19 | 7.30 | |
| Doesn't know/answer | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.11 | |
| Insurance (%) | Individual | ||||
| Insured | 19.46 | 26.94 | 21.88 | 25.11 | |
| Uninsured | 80.54 | 73.06 | 78.12 | 74.89 | |
| Need | |||||
| Health problems (%) | Individual | ||||
| No problems | 52.64 | 52.74 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| One problem | 41.24 | 41.04 | 87.93 | 0.00 | |
| Two problems | 6.12 | 6.22 | 12.07 | 100.00 | |
a Subsamples highlight those individuals who answered "Yes" to use of preventive care services, first health problem curative visit, and second health problem curative visit, respectively.