Understanding differences in access and use of healthcare between international immigrants to Chile and the Chilean-born: a repeated cross-sectional population-based study in Chile

Table 4 Exploration of crude inequality in access to and use of healthcare services among people with heath needs (any disability, either visual, hearing, physical, learning, psychiatric, or speaking), a comparison between the Chilean-born and immigrants, CASEN 2006 and 2009

	CASEN 2006				CASEN 2009
	Chilean-born population with any disability		Immigrant population with any disability		Chilean-born population with any disability		Immigrant population with any disability
	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI
*TYPE OF HEALTHCARE PROVISION*
None or don’t know^**αα	15.37	14.90-15.86	28.10	23.86-32.77	2.35	1.88-2.94	12.72	4.07-33.41
Public 100% free^**	29.39	28.90-29.89	15.27	12.65-18.33	50.75	49.40-52.10	38.22	21.26-58.62
Public with co-payment^**	47.46	46.89-48.03	39.09	34.73-43.63	39.99	38.68-41.32	27.36	12.87-48.98
Private	2.70	2.50-2.91	1.97	0.85-4.48	5.29	4.49-6.24	19.29	5.19-51.07
Other not stated^**	5.08	4.86-5.31	15.57	12.66-19.01	1.61	1.22-1.97	2.41	0.55-9.90
*USE OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES*
Pap smear	48.50	47.95-49.04	47.28	42.12-52.49	40.81	39.18-42.46	50.99	22.51-78.84
Number of healthcare attentions received	X= 2.02	1.99-2.05	X=1.97	1.66-2.27	0.70	0.64-0.76	1.07	0.23-1.91
Type of healthcare programme:
Well baby care ^**	23.43	22.79-24.07	9.48	5.46-15.94	1.06	0.76-1.47	0	-
Antenatal care^**	3.15	2.91-3.42	11.03	6.27-18.68	0.74	0.46-1.28	0	-
Chronic disease care	28.99	28.32-29.66	21.75	13.82-32.52	48.80	46.61-50.74	22.66	6.32-59.98
Gynaecologic care^*	9.08	8.67-9.51	16.38	9.42-26.96	2.42	1.87-3.12	0	-
Preventive adult/elderly care^**αα	16.79	16.21-17.39	28.29	18.56-40.57	26.19	24.55-27.91	71.72	37.22-91.56
Other attention	17.84	17.18-18.52	13.07	0.82-20.20	18.84	17.05-20.77	6.22	0.88-35.38
Don’t remember	0.72	0.57-0.92	0	-	0.88	0.57-1.35	0	-

^* p value < 0.05 when comparing the same categories between the Chilean-born and the immigrant populations in 2006.
^** p value < 0.001 when comparing the same categories between the Chilean-born and the immigrant populations in 2006.
^α p value < 0.05 when comparing the same categories between the Chilean-born and the immigrant populations in 2009.
^αα p value < 0.001 when comparing the same categories between the Chilean-born and the immigrant populations in 2009.

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