Table 3.
Children < 7 years | Children 7-17 years | |
---|---|---|
Health care utilization (dichotomous) |
|
|
Any health post visit – growth monitoring |
440 (70.74) |
203 (42.29) |
Any health post visit – vaccination |
540 (88.38) |
110 (23.01) |
Any checkup |
380 (60.90) |
219 (45.06) |
Any health post visit – sick |
138 (22.29) |
67 (13.73) |
Any urgent care center visit |
430 (69.13) |
219 (44.97) |
Any hospital visit |
95 (15.20) |
31 (6.35) |
Health care utilization (continuous) |
|
|
Health post visits – growth monitoring |
2.39 (3.08) |
0.97 (1.72) |
Health post visits – vaccination |
2.20 (1.81) |
0.33 (0.74) |
Checkups |
1.11 (1.38) |
0.67 (1.02) |
Health post visits – sick |
0.50 (1.15) |
0.25 (0.82) |
Urgent care center visits |
1.80 (2.26) |
0.88 (1.36) |
Hospital visits |
0.25 (0.84) |
0.11 (0.62) |
Illness |
|
|
Diarrhea in last 3 months |
223 (30.84) |
81 (15.67) |
Diarrhea in last 2 weeks |
88 (12.17) |
26 (5.03) |
Fever in last 2 weeks |
234 (32.37) |
87 (16.83) |
Cough in last 2 weeks |
418 (57.81) |
188 (36.36) |
Health status summary scores* |
|
|
Physical health summary score |
43.74 (12.68) |
45.02 (10.61) |
Psychosocial health summary score | 53.72 (7.28) | 51.91 (8.53) |
Data are mean (SD) or n (%). Age was calculated as of the interview date except in the analysis of health care utilization when age was calculated as of December 31, 2009.
*Health status questions were only applied to children ages 5 and above. Therefore, the youngest subgroup of children for these outcomes only contains children between the ages of 5-7 years.