Social determinants of prescribed and non-prescribed medicine use

Table 4 Number of women who take prescribed medicine (n), prevalence of prescribed medicine use in % and Bivariate and Multivariate association between prescribed medicine use during the preceding 15 days and independent variables in women, by perceived health status.

	Good perceived health status					Poor perceived health status
Variables	n	Prev.	Bivar OR	Mvar OR	95% CI	n	Prev.	Bivar OR	Mvar OR	95% CI
Age
15-34	64	11.2	1	1		13	29.3	1	1
35-54	86	14.9	1.4	1.41	0.94-2.11	42	32.2	1.14	1.11	0.43-2.87
55-64	47	26.6	*2.89	2.84	1.69-4.77	50	40.5	1.64	1.87	0.70-4.97
> = 65	91	36.6	*4.62	3.42	1.81-6.46	183	51.1	*2.51	3.13	1.13-8.63
Total	288	18.3				288	43.9
Social class
I-II	58	17.6	1	1		22	50.4	1	1
III	86	18.5	1.06	0.94	0.64-1.38	52	44.3	*0.78	0.67	0.32-1.39
IV-V	121	16.8	0.94	0.93	0.63-1.37	188	42.2	*0.71	0.65	0.33-1.27
Employment status
Salaried employees	107	15.2	1	1		42	48.1	1	1
Housewifes	81	13.2	0.85	0.90	0.59-1.38	133	38.1	*0.66	1.10	0.63-1.91
Unemployed women	19	18.4	*1.26	1.44	0.80-2.56	3	20.0	*0.27	0.52	0.14-1.85
Retired women	57	26.4	*2.06	1.63	0.88-3.04	88	56.1	*1.37	0.99	0.51-1.93
Students	21	27.1	*2.07	0.85	0.48-1.52	4	66.7	*2.15	1.59	0.37-6.87
Type of PHC
PCR 1984-93	50	18.2	1	1		73	49.4	1	1
PCR 1994-98	53	13.6	*0.71	0.76	0.48-1.20	61	42.4	*0.75	0.74	0.45-1.22
No PCR	101	20.3	1.14	1.22	0.81-1.83	110	42.3	*0.74	0.85	0.54-1.32
Mutual or private	53	16.6	0.89	0.80	0.49-1.30	32	43.7	*0.79	0.69	0.36-1.31
No usual PHC	29	15.5	*0.82	0.81	0.47-1.41	8	26.9	*0.37	0.44	0.15-1.27

Barcelona Health Interview Survey, 2000.
PHC indicates primary health care; n, number of cases; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; Bivar OR, bivariate odds ratio; Mvar OR, multivariate odds ratio; PCR, primary care reform.
* p value < 0.05

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