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. 2020 Aug 31;17(17):6327. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17176327

Table 3.

Factors associated with visits to local physicians when needed: results of two-level logistic regression models.

Variables Rural to Urban Respondents Urban to Urban Respondents All Respondents
AOR/ICC SE p Value 95%CI AOR/ICC SE p Value 95%CI AOR/ICC SE p Value 95%CI
Fixed effects (Level 1)
Enrolment with a local social health insurance program No (reference)
Yes * 1.24 0.08 <0.001 1.09 1.42 1.09 0.09 0.32 0.92 1.28 1.18 0.06 <0.001 1.06 1.30
Gender Male (reference)
Female 1.06 0.04 0.10 0.99 1.13 1.15 0.07 0.03 1.02 1.30 1.08 0.03 0.01 1.02 1.14
Age (Years) 15–24 (reference)
25–34 1.09 0.08 0.21 0.95 1.25 0.90 0.13 0.46 0.68 1.19 1.05 0.06 0.42 0.93 1.18
35–44 1.05 0.08 0.47 0.91 1.22 0.82 0.13 0.21 0.61 1.12 1.00 0.07 0.98 0.87 1.14
45–54 0.91 0.07 0.24 0.79 1.06 0.84 0.13 0.28 0.62 1.15 0.89 0.06 0.10 0.78 1.02
55+ 1.02 0.11 0.88 0.82 1.27 0.85 0.17 0.42 0.58 1.26 0.97 0.09 0.75 0.82 1.16
Marital status Never married/Single (reference)
Married 1.02 0.08 0.75 0.89 1.18 1.08 0.13 0.55 0.85 1.37 1.03 0.08 0.73 0.89 1.18
Divorced 1.03 0.14 0.83 0.78 1.36 1.13 0.28 0.63 0.70 1.83 1.04 0.13 0.78 0.81 1.32
Widowed 0.90 0.19 0.60 0.60 1.34 1.47 0.41 0.17 0.85 2.53 0.99 0.18 0.98 0.70 1.41
Educational attainment Illiterate (reference)
Primary school 1.05 0.10 0.61 0.87 1.27 0.64 0.19 0.13 0.36 1.14 1.01 0.10 0.94 0.84 1.21
Junior middle school 1.14 0.11 0.17 0.94 1.38 0.66 0.20 0.16 0.37 1.18 1.09 0.10 0.32 0.92 1.29
Senior middle school 1.09 0.15 0.52 0.84 1.43 0.72 0.21 0.27 0.41 1.29 1.06 0.12 0.61 0.85 1.31
University/college 1.12 0.13 0.37 0.88 1.41 0.74 0.23 0.32 0.40 1.34 1.07 0.10 0.46 0.89 1.29
Employment Unemployed (reference)
Employed 0.89 0.04 0.02 0.81 0.98 1.13 0.12 0.24 0.92 1.40 0.94 0.04 0.13 0.86 1.02
Household income ranking Lowest (<percentile 20, reference)
Lower (percentile 20–39.9) 1.02 0.05 0.74 0.93 1.11 1.14 0.13 0.24 0.92 1.42 1.03 0.05 0.49 0.95 1.12
Middle (percentile 40–59.9) 1.00 0.06 0.95 0.90 1.12 1.15 0.14 0.24 0.91 1.46 1.03 0.05 0.63 0.93 1.14
Higher (percentile 60–79.9) 1.02 0.05 0.65 0.93 1.13 1.03 0.11 0.78 0.84 1.26 1.01 0.05 0.82 0.92 1.11
Highest (≥percentile 80) 1.07 0.08 0.42 0.92 1.24 0.96 0.12 0.77 0.76 1.23 1.01 0.07 0.84 0.88 1.17
Type of social health insurance BMIUR/RNCMS (reference)
BMIUE 0.83 0.07 0.02 0.71 0.97 0.95 0.09 0.62 0.80 1.14 0.85 0.05 <0.001 0.76 0.95
Others 6.43 4.49 0.01 1.63 25.29 1.06 0.24 0.81 0.68 1.64 1.19 0.23 0.36 0.82 1.75
Self-rating of health Good (reference)
General 1.15 0.06 0.01 1.04 1.27 1.16 0.10 0.10 0.97 1.39 1.14 0.05 <0.001 1.05 1.25
Poor 1.81 0.18 <0.001 1.49 2.20 1.87 0.45 0.01 1.16 3.01 1.80 0.19 <0.001 1.47 2.20
Two-week morbidity No (reference)
Yes 1.21 0.06 <0.001 1.10 1.34 1.20 0.11 0.05 1.00 1.45 1.21 0.06 <0.001 1.10 1.32
Chronic morbidity No (reference)
Yes 1.30 0.10 <0.001 1.12 1.51 1.39 0.18 0.01 1.08 1.80 1.33 0.09 <0.001 1.16 1.52
Radom effects (Level 2)
Variance (enrolment with local social health insurance) 0.36 0.07 0.25 0.52 0.21 0.07 0.11 0.41 0.26 0.04 0.19 0.36
Variance (intercept) 0.37 0.04 0.31 0.45 0.39 0.06 0.29 0.53 0.38 0.03 0.32 0.45
ICC
Empty model 0.10 0.01 0.09 0.12 0.10 0.01 0.08 0.13 0.10 0.01 0.09 0.12
Full model 0.10 0.01 0.09 0.12 0.11 0.01 0.08 0.14 0.10 0.01 0.09 0.12
Wald Chi Square test
Chi-Square 178.31 84.32 216.78
p value <0.001 <0.001 <0.001

Note: * Average marginal effects (AME) of location of social health insurance funds: 4.8% (1.8%, 7.7%) for rural-to-urban respondents; 1.9% (−1.8%, 5.6%) for urban-to-urban respondents; 3.5% (1.3%, 5.8%) for all respondents. ICC: intraclass correlation coefficient; AOR: adjusted odds ratio; SE: standard error; CI: confidence interval.