Table 3.

Fraction of respondents that sought care for symptoms by VAS eligibility

	VAS ineligible (N=2209), %	VAS eligible (N=2250), %	Marginal effects from logit regressions (%)
Symptom			Difference	Adjusted difference†
Any symptom‡	65.31	69.73	4.42** (0.7 to 8.2)	4.96** (1.0 to 8.9)
Symptoms cardiac conditions§	62.32	66.71	4.37** (0.1 to 8.7)	5.41** (0.9 to 9.9)
Symptoms of non-cardiac conditions¶	58.2	62.16	3.92* (−0.6 to 8.4)	3.87* (−0.6 to 8.4)

Estimates are from logit regression models.

95% CIs are in parentheses.

**p<0.05.

†Village-level adjustments include: access to piped water; all weather road in village; distance to nearest town; share of men who are heavy drinkers; share of people who use tobacco; whether there is a primary care clinic, hospital or private health centre; availability of electricity; access to a bank; and literacy rate. Household-level controls include age, gender, income, land ownership, main source of income and self-reported health status.

‡Includes all symptoms described in notes 2 and 3.

§Includes symptoms of chest pain.

¶Includes symptoms of back pain, blurred vision, cough for extended period of time that does not respond to treatment, frequent urination, lesions, pain in stool, seizures or fainting, difficulty urinating, vomit blood, weakness, sudden weight loss, oral ulcers, blood in sputum, pain in limbs.

VAS, Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme.