Table 1.
Associations of characteristics between insured and uninsured older 50 adults with diabetes in Mexico (n=3,667)
| Uninsured n=1,253 |
Insured n=2,414 |
Value p | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | |||
| Male | 427 (34.1) | 942 (39.0) | 0.003 |
| Female | 826 (65.9) | 1472 (61.0) | |
| Age groups | |||
| 50–59 years | 472 (37.7) | 673 (27.9) | <0.001 |
| 60–69 years | 398 (31.8) | 782 (32.4) | |
| ≥70 years | 383 (30.5) | 959 (39.7) | |
| Residence | |||
| Urban | 869 (69.4) | 2192 (90.8) | <0.001 |
| Rural | 384 (30.6) | 222 (9.2) | |
| Years of education | |||
| < 9 years | 1011 (80.7) | 1547 (64.1) | <0.001 |
| ≥ 9 years | 242 (19.3) | 867 (35.9) | |
| Would you say your health is… | |||
| Excellent/Very good | 21 (1.7) | 74 (3.1) | <0.001 |
| Good | 210 (16.8) | 500 (20.7) | |
| Fair | 770 (61.4) | 1478 (61.2) | |
| Poor | 252 (20.1) | 362 (15.0) | |
| Comparing your health now with your health two years ago, would you say your health now is…? | |||
| Much better/Somewhat better | 165 (13.2) | 339 (14.0) | <0.001 |
| More or less the same | 558 (44.5) | 1226 (50.8) | |
| Somewhat worse | 435 (34.7) | 726 (30.1) | |
| Much worse | 95 (7.6) | 123 (5.1) | |
| Visited doctor | |||
| No | 114 (9.1) | 131 (5.4) | <0.001 |
| Yes | 1139 (90.9) | 2283 (94.6) | |
| Visited dentist | |||
| No | 834 (66.6) | 1346 (55.8) | <0.001 |
| Yes | 419 (33.4) | 1068 (44.2) | |
| Self-medicated | |||
| No | 969 (77.3) | 1954 (80.9) | 0.010 |
| Yes | 284 (22.7) | 460 (19.1) |