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. 2017 Aug 2;18:86. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4562-7

Table 2.

Association between all-cause mortality and sex, individual education, contextual deprivation and time to health care

Variables Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5 Model 6 Model 7 Model 8
HR HR HR HR HR HR HR HR
Individual effects
 Men ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref
 Women 0.49*** 0.48*** 0.49*** 0.49*** 0.48*** 0.48*** 0.49*** 0.48***
 Upper and post-secondary ref ref ref ref
 Lower secondary 1.31*** 1.31*** 1.31*** 1.31***
 Completed elementary 1.42*** 1.42*** 1.42*** 1.42***
 Incompleted elementary 1.75*** 1.74*** 1.75*** 1.75***
Contextual Effects
 Area Deprivation
  Q1 (least deprived) ref ref ref ref
  Q2 1.05 1.01 1.08* 1.05
  Q3 1.08** 1.02 1.14*** 1.09**
  Q4 1.13*** 1.04 1.19*** 1.13***
  Q5 1.17*** 1.06* 1.26*** 1.17***
  Trend 1.10*** 1.05*** 1.15*** 1.10***
Travel time to health care
 Q1 (shortest time) ref ref ref ref
 Q2 0.99 0.97 0.96 0.95
 Q3 1.04 0.98 0.96 0.93*
 Q4 1.05 0.98 0.94 0.91**
 Q5 0.98 0.91** 0.87*** 0.84***
 Trend 0.98 0.93*** 0.89*** 0.87***
 Spatial Variance (ZE94) 0.013 0.011 0.010 0.012 0.011 0.010 0.008 0.008

The Trend is estimated from a separate model in which the concerned contextual effect has been introduced as a linear effect (log-linear). The displayed trend effect is the linear effect multiplied by the mean score difference between the fifth and the first quintile

HR Hazard Ratio. Q ordered population-weighted quintile

*p-value <0.050, **p-value <0.010, ***p-value <0.001