Do place of residence and ethnicity affect health services utilization? evidence from greece

Table 3 Logistic regression models for the General Population

	Visits to insurance funds physicians			Visits to private practitioners			Admissions to emergency departments			Hospital admissions
	P-value	Exp(b)	CI	P-value	Exp(b)	CI	P-value	Exp(b)	CI	P-value	Exp(b)	CI
Sex (men)	NS	1.08	0.79-1.48	NS	0.86	0.62-1.20	<0.05	1.39	1.06-1.88	NS	1.28	0.89-1.86
Age (18-34)
35-44	NS	1.32	0.85-2.05	NS	1.33	0.85-2.06	NS	1.12	0.79-1.61	NS	1.02	0.61-1.71
45-54	<0.04	1.81	1.12-2.91	<0.05	1.71	1.05-2.78	NS	0.82	0.54-1.26	NS	0.72	0.39-1.31
55-64	NS	1.22	0.67-2.23	NS	0.99	0.51-1.92	NS	0.91	0.53-1.56	NS	1.07	0.54-2.10
65+	<0.001	3.11	1.65-5.88	NS	1.31	0.62-2.76	NS	0..99	0.54-1.82	NS	1.19	0.55-2.53
Ethnicity (Greeks)	<0.01	1.97	1.27-3.05	NS	0.89	0.60-1.32	<0.001	0.39	0.28-0.53	NS	0.83	0.53-1.30
Education (primary)							NS
Secondary	NS	1.10	0.72-1.69	NS	1.21	0.76-1.93	NS	0.73	0.50-1.09	NS	0.96	0.58-1.58
University	<0.01	2.33	1.33-4.06	NS	1.11	0.59-2.09	NS	0.60	0.34-1.03	NS	1.16	0.57-2.33
Income (low)
Medium	NS	0.71	0.50-1.01	NS	1.45	0.97-2.17	NS	1.15	0.82-1.60	NS	1.08	0.70-1.66
High	NS	1.89	0.56-1.43	<0.05	1.83	1.10-3.04	NS	1.27	0.83-1.95	NS	1.52	0.86-2.67
Occupation (non manual)	NS	0.81	0.59-1.11	NS	1.90	0.64-1.26	<0.05	0.74	0.56-0.98	NS	0.69	0.47-1.00
PCS	<0.001	0.93	0.91-0.95	<0.01	1.96	0.94-0.98	<0.001	0.95	0.93-0.96	<0.001	0.91	0.89-0.93
MCS	<0.001	0.95	0.94-0.97	<0.001	1.94	0.93-0.96	<0.001	0.96	0.95-0.97	<0.001	0.96	0.94-0.98
R ²	22.5			11.1			15.6			17.2

PCS = Physical Component Score, MCS = Mental Component Score
NS = non significant (p > 0.05)
For categorical explanatory variables, the reference group for the calculation of the odds ratio (OR) is indicated by the parenthesis.

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