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. 2022 Jan 4;22:22. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-07413-0

Table 3.

Determinants of public satisfaction in health care, 2006, 2013, 2017

2006 2013 2017
Variables OR 95% CI AME OR 95% CI AME OR 95% CI AME
Sociodemographic
Age 0.992 0.960—1.025 -0.001c 1.014 0.984—1.044 0.002a 1.000 0.973—1.028 0.001b
Middle school or above 0.846b 0.737—0.972 -0.036b 0.921 0.804—1.055 -0.016 1.022 0.901—1.158 0.004
 Male 0.896c 0.798—1.007 -0.024c 0.934 0.834—1.046 -0.013 0.981 0.879—1.094 -0.004
Married 0.994 0.834—1.183 -0.001 0.915 0.772—1.086 -0.017 0.841b 0.714—0.991 -0.032b
Employed 1.232a 1.063—1.429 0.046a 1.155b 1.008—1.322 0.029b 0.958 0.855—1.074 -0.008
Rural non-migrant 1.176b 1.011—1.369 0.035b 0.892 0.767—1.037 -0.023 0.947 0.826—1.085 -0.010
Rural migrant 1.101 0.918—1.321 0.021 1.006 0.877—1.155 0.001 0.911 0.799—1.039 -0.017
 Self-rated social status 1.162b 1.029—1.312 0.032b 1.300a 1.161—1.457 0.052a 1.194a 1.066—1.337 0.033a
 Q2 0.918 0.780—1.081 -0.018 0.926 0.788—1.089 -0.015 0.963 0.832—1.114 -0.007
 Q3 0.964 0.815—1.141 -0.008 0.931 0.788—1.101 -0.014 0.912 0.788—1.057 -0.017
 Q4 0.959 0.790—1.164 -0.009 0.910 0.759—1.090 -0.019 1.069 0.905—1.262 0.012
 Central 1.051 0.820—1.346 0.011 0.804b 0.674—0.960 -0.042b 0.968 0.815—1.149 -0.006
 West 1.566a 1.140—2.150 0.095a 0.672a 0.532—0.848 -0.078a 0.943 0.749—1.187 -0.011
Financial protection
 Insured status 1.283a 1.129—1.458 0.054a 1.574a 1.329—1.863 0.095a 1.249a 1.099—1.420 0.043a
 Experienced unbearable health expenditure 0.679a 0.604—0.764 -0.085a 0.718a 0.638—0.807 -0.067a 0.697a 0.625—0.777 -0.070a
 Share of GHE in THE 0.966a 0.946—0.987 -0.007a 1.002 0.988—1.016 0.000 0.997 0.982—1.013 -0.001
Accessibility
 Hospital Beds/1000 1.335c 0.972—1.834 0.062c 1.058 0.905—1.237 0.011 1.068 0.941—1.212 0.012
 Health professionals/1000 1.020 0.848—1.225 0.004 1.081a 1.021—1.145 0.015a 0.978 0.883—1.083 -0.004
Perceived quality
 Perceived medical safety 3.399a 3.031—3.813 0.286a 2.494a 2.223—2.798 0.199a 2.886a 2.581—3.227 0.228a
Province socioeconomic factors
 Log GDP per capita 0.893 0.555—1.438 -0.024 0.382a 0.265—0.549 -0.190a 0.911 0.711—1.168 -0.018
 Population over 65 years old 0.995 0.949—1.044 -0.001 1.091a 1.042—1.143 0.017a 0.993 0.952—1.035 -0.001
 Log Gov spending per capita 0.707 0.387—1.292 -0.075 1.157 0.881—1.520 0.029 1.122 0.868—1.450 0.022
 Observations 7,054 10,116 9,552

a, b and c denote statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% level, respectively. AME is the average marginal effect. Data is weighted to yield nationally representative estimates. An increase of quartile corresponds to a progressive increase in household income quartiles. Q1, the urban area and the east region are used as reference groups