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 7 Stereotype logistic and multinomial logistic regression of physical function

	Model 7		Model 8		Model 9
	Stereotype logistic		Multinomial logistic		Multinomial logistic
	d11b		g9		g11
	2005	2008	2005	2008	2005	2008
	Coefficients	Coefficients	Coefficients	Coefficients	Coefficients	Coefficients
NCMS participation (no = 0)	−0.331***	−0.458***	0.219	0.083	0.368**	0.163*
Medical expenses in previous year	0.000***	0.000***	0.000***	0.000***	0.000***	0.000***
Utilization of adequate medical services (no = 0)	−0.338***	−0.118	0.870***	0.620***	0.760***	0.637***
Province = eastern (western = 0)	0.129	0.494***	−0.119	−0.611***	−0.610***	−0.686***
Province = middle (western = 0)	0.578***	−0.431***	0.017	−0.242*	−0.317**	−0.117
Male (female = 0)	−0.282***	0.316***	0.374***	0.442***	0.565***	0.524***
Age	0.052***	0.047***	−0.091***	−0.109***	−0.119***	−0.137***
Years of education	−0.052***	−0.027*	0.006	0.006	0.024	0.026
NCMS participation (no = 0)			−0.071	0.197*	−0.054	0.354***
Medical expenses in previous year			0.000***	0.000***	0.000***	0.000***
Utilization of adequate medical services (no = 0)			0.386***	0.481***	0.376***	0.411***
Province = eastern (western = 0)			0.313**	−0.302**	−0.610***	−0.687***
Province = middle (western = 0)			0.590***	0.157	−0.103	0.082
Male (female = 0)			0.019	0.182	0.168	0.212*
Age			−0.006	−0.015**	−0.034***	−0.042***
Years of education			−0.008	−0.009	0.002	−0.029

Note: ***indicates p < 0. 001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05. d11b: Do you do any outdoors activities at present?; g9: Able to stand up from sitting in a chair?; g11: Able to pick up a book from the floor?

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