Table 2.
Health behaviours and physician density factors of study participants by medical pluralism
| Medical pluralism | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | Total | ||||
| N = 8510 | N = 4094 | N = 12604 | ||||
| Have unhealthy lifestyle | ||||||
| No | 4766 | (64.2) | 2662 | (35.8) | 7428 | (100) |
| One | 1698 | (69.6) | 740 | (30.4) | 2438 | (100) |
| Two or three | 2043 | (74.8) | 690 | (25.2) | 2733 | (100) |
| Severe disease | ||||||
| No | 8269 | (67.4) | 4001 | (32.6) | 12270 | (100) |
| Yes | 241 | (72.2) | 93 | (27.8) | 334 | (100) |
| Have regular health checkup | ||||||
| No | 7046 | (67.7) | 3356 | (32.3) | 10402 | (100) |
| Yes | 1464 | (66.5) | 738 | (33.5) | 2202 | (100) |
| Use of folk therapy | ||||||
| No | 8123 | (68.6) | 3723 | (31.4) | 11846 | (100) |
| Yes | 383 | (51.0) | 368 | (49.0) | 751 | (100) |
| Density of TCM physicians | ||||||
| Low | 568 | (82.1) | 124 | (17.9) | 692 | (100) |
| Moderate | 1995 | (69.5) | 874 | (30.5) | 2869 | (100) |
| High | 5947 | (65.8) | 3096 | (34.2) | 9043 | (100) |
| Density of WM physicians | ||||||
| Low | 845 | (70.8) | 348 | (29.2) | 1193 | (100) |
| Moderate | 1869 | (68.4) | 865 | (31.6) | 2734 | (100) |
| High | 5796 | (66.8) | 2881 | (33.2) | 8677 | (100) |
TCM, traditional Chinese medicine; WM, Western medicine