Medical insurance policy organized by Chinese government and the health inequity of the elderly: longitudinal comparison based on effect of New Cooperative Medical Scheme on health of rural elderly in 22 provinces and cities

Table 5 Stereotype logistic regression of the general health

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
	b11		b12		b121
	2005	2008	2005	2008	2005	2008
	Coefficients	Coefficients	Coefficients	Coefficients	Coefficients	Coefficients
NCMS participation (no = 0)	−1.125***	−0.399**	−0.300	−0.158	0.047	−0.376***
Medical expenses in previous year	0.000**	0.000*	0.000***	0.000***	0.000***	0.000***
Utilization of adequate medical services (no = 0)	−3.810***	−4.358***	−2.306***	−2.194***	−1.305***	−1.514***
Province = eastern (western = 0)	−0.545**	−1.453***	−0.369**	−1.728***	0.468***	−0.987***
Province = middle (western = 0)	−0.576***	−0.186	0.168	−0.853***	0.523***	−0.456***
Male (female = 0)	0.285*	0.388**	−0.071	−0.165	0.042	−0.212*
Age	−0.012*	−0.011	0.010*	0.006	0.023***	0.015***
Years of education	−0.091***	−0.112***	−0.083***	−0.049*	−0.027	−0.015
Df	8	8	8	8	8	8
Wald chi(2)	215.74	239.52	209.67	328.31	32.77	39.67

Note: ***indicates p < 0. 001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05. b11: Self-rated quality of life; b12: Self-rated health; b121: Do you feel any change of your health since last year.

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