Table 3.
Reasons for non-use of health service among elderly in Shandong, China (%) (2012)
| Reasons | Non-visiting | Non-hospitalization | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (%) | Empty-nesters (%) | Non-empty-Nesters (%) | Total (%) | Empty-nesters (%) | Non-empty-nesters (%) | |
| N | 1038 | 689 | 349 | 326 | 221 | 105 |
| Financial difficulties | 436(42.0) | 320(46.4) | 116(33.3) | 178(54.6) | 128(57.9) | 50(47.6) |
| Illness not serious | 366(35.3) | 215(31.3) | 151(43.3) | 76(23.3) | 47(21.3) | 29(27.6) |
| Without effective medical treatment | 59(5.7) | 44(6.4) | 15(4.3) | 29(8.9) | 18(8.1) | 11(10.5) |
| Poor transportation | 17(1.6) | 9(1.3) | 8(2.3) | -- | -- | |
| Inconvenient | 14(1.3) | 8(1.2) | 6(1.7) | -- | -- | |
| No enough time | -- | -- | -- | 8(2.5) | 4(1.8) | 4(3.8) |
| No beds | -- | -- | -- | 3(0.9) | 2(0.9) | 1(1.0) |
| Others | 145(14.0) | 92(13.4) | 53(15.2) | 32(9.8) | 22(10.0) | 10(9.5) |
| χ 2 =23.41, P = 0.000 | χ 2 =4.23, P = 0.518 | |||||