Table 4.

Factors associated with the cost of prescriptions

	All		THC		Village Clinics
	Level	β	95% C.I.	β	95% C.I.	β	95% C.I.
Village Clinic	-	-	-	-	-	-
THC	8.70	8.45 - 8.93	-	-	-	-
Period
Before	-	-	-	-	-	-
During	6.93	6.58 - 7.28	4.40	3.93 - 4.86	3.68	3.17 - 4.19
After	14.09	13.78 - 14.41	11.48	11.05 - 11.91	11.16	10.70 - 11.62
Township
Intervention	-	-	-	-	-	-
Comparison 1	-1.37	-2.11 - -0.62	-	-	2.19	1.24 - 3.14
Comparison 2	-7.67	-8.27 - -7.07	-6.21	-7.0 - -5.45	1.81	0.86 - 2.76
Comparison 3	-11.62	-12.15 - -11.09	-14.48	-15.13 - -13.82	-3.10	-3.98 - -2.23
Type of prescription
Western medicine	-	-	-	-	-	-
Chinese traditional medicine	7.11	6.72 - 7.49	7.22	6.77 - 7.67	15.56	14.61 -16.51
Interaction - during
Other	-	-	-	-	-
Intervention site * intervention period	2.78	2.13 - 3.43	8.84	8.00 - 9.68	-1.29	-2.29 - -0.30
Interaction - post
Other	-		-	-	-	-
Intervention site * post-intervention period	8.89	8.27 - 9.52	18.59	17.77 - 19.40	-1.11	-2.07 - -0.15
Gender
Male	-		-		-	-
Female	-3.12	-3.31 - -2.93	-4.75	-5.01 - -4.50	0.74	0.47 - 1.02
Age (years)
< 5	-	-	-	-	-	-
5 < 15	5.95	5.54 - 6.36	7.28	6.71 - 7.85	3.21	2.69 - 3.72
15 < 25	11.90	11.46 - 12.34	15.61	15.05 - 16.17	9.25	8.56 - 9.93
25 < 35	14.51	14.10 - 14.92	18.60	18.08 - 19.12	10.85	10.18 - 11.52
35 < 45	15.63	15.23 - 16.04	19.58	19.06 - 20.11	10.30	9.70 - 10.90
45 < 55	17.13	16.71 - 17.56	21.06	20.51 - 21.61	10.72	10.11 - 11.33
55 < 65	18.56	18.11 - 19.00	22.36	21.76 - 22.95	11.81	11.20 - 12.41
65+	26.48	26.05 - 26.91	33.64	33.07 - 34.21	12.17	11.59 - 12.74
"adult"	13.84	13.29 - 14.40	9.58	8.11 - 11.05	7.87	7.31 - 8.43
unknown	6.12	5.31 - 6.93	11.38	9.49 - 13.28	2.42	1.64 - 3.20

Village clinic and THC outpatients only: multivariable regression analysis