The role of parental health care utilization in children’s unnecessary utilization in China: evidence from Shaanxi province

Zhang, Yi; Zhou, Zhongliang; Si, Yafei

doi:10.1186/s12939-017-0544-8

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 4 Negative binomial regression results on the use of outpatient services in the past 2 weeks

From: The role of parental health care utilization in children’s unnecessary utilization in China: evidence from Shaanxi province

	Number of children’s outpatient visit in the last 2 weeks (marginal effect reported)
	(1) Full sample				(2) Age 0–5				(3) Age 6–11				(4) Age 12–18
	dy/dx	S.E.	95% CI		dy/dx	S.E.	95% CI		dy/dx	S.E.	95% CI		dy/dx	S.E.	95% CI
Parents had outpatient visit	0.0393^a	0.0106	0.0186	0.0600	0.0980^a	0.0306	0.0381	0.1579	0.0170	0.0146	−0.0117	0.0457	0.0179^c	0.0107	−0.0031	0.0390
Per capita household expense
Poor	−0.0010	0.0036	−0.0080	0.0061	0.0057	0.0099	−0.0138	0.0251	0.0007	0.0061	−0.0113	0.0127	−0.0051^c	0.0031	−0.0111	0.0008
Average	−0.0023	0.0036	−0.0094	0.0048	−0.0048	0.0091	−0.0228	0.0131	0.0003	0.0065	−0.0124	0.0129	−0.0031	0.0038	−0.0106	0.0044
Rich	−0.0016	0.0036	−0.0087	0.0055	0.0040	0.0107	−0.0170	0.0251	−0.0079	0.0053	−0.0183	0.0025	−0.0024	0.0037	−0.0096	0.0048
Richest	−0.0002	0.0039	−0.0078	0.0075	0.0111	0.0118	−0.0119	0.0342	−0.0086	0.0062	−0.0207	0.0034	0.0008	0.0044	−0.0078	0.0094
Children had insurance	0.0005	0.0040	−0.0074	0.0084	0.0000	0.0098	−0.0191	0.0192	−0.0090	0.0116	−0.0318	0.0137	0.0174^a	0.0025	0.0125	0.0224
Children’s days of illness	0.0133^a	0.0008	0.0118	0.0147	0.0241^a	0.0013	0.0216	0.0267	0.0122^a	0.0013	0.0096	0.0148	0.0045^a	0.0005	0.0035	0.0055
Children’s height (ln)	0.0034	0.0074	−0.0110	0.0179	0.0128	0.0163	−0.0191	0.0447	−0.0156	0.0175	−0.0498	0.0187	0.0047	0.0142	−0.0231	0.0326
Children’s weight (ln)	−0.0010	0.0039	−0.0086	0.0066	−0.0053	0.0083	−0.0215	0.0109	0.0108	0.0087	−0.0062	0.0279	−0.0051	0.0072	−0.0191	0.0090
Prenatal days of illness	−0.0013^b	0.0005	−0.0023	−0.0002	−0.0033^b	0.0015	−0.0062	−0.0004	−0.0001	0.0008	−0.0016	0.0014	−0.0009^c	0.0005	−0.0018	0.0000
Parental age	0.0001	0.0001	−0.0001	0.0002	0.0003	0.0002	−0.0001	0.0006	−0.0001	0.0002	−0.0004	0.0003	0.0001	0.0002	−0.0002	0.0004
Children’s age
3-5	−0.0051^c	0.0030	−0.0110	0.0008	−0.0126^c	0.0073	−0.0269	0.0017
6-8	−0.0074^c	0.0040	−0.0152	0.0005
9-11	−0.0161^a	0.0039	−0.0237	−0.0085					−0.0100^b	0.0048	−0.0194	−0.0007
12-14	−0.0154^a	0.0043	−0.0238	−0.0069
15-18	−0.0239^a	0.0048	−0.0333	−0.0145									−0.0078^b	0.0036	−0.0148	−0.0007
Gender was male	−0.0031	0.0023	−0.0075	0.0014	−0.0095^c	0.0056	−0.0206	0.0015	0.0025	0.0041	−0.0055	0.0106	−0.0036	0.0026	−0.0086	0.0015
Ethnicity was Han	−0.0004	0.0099	−0.0198	0.0191	0.0022	0.0275	−0.0517	0.0560	0.0023	0.0170	−0.0310	0.0357	0.0005	0.0105	−0.0200	0.0210
Urban	0.0095^a	0.0028	0.0039	0.0150	0.0113 ^c	0.0067	−0.0018	0.0244	0.0190^a	0.0063	0.0067	0.0314	−0.0017	0.0029	−0.0074	0.0041
Region
Guanzhong	−0.0006	0.0026	−0.0056	0.0044	−0.0011	0.0061	−0.0131	0.0109	−0.0015	0.0045	−0.0104	0.0073	0.0023	0.0030	−0.0036	0.0083
Shanbei	−0.0033	0.0030	−0.0092	0.0026	−0.0117	0.0079	−0.0272	0.0038	0.0012	0.0057	−0.0100	0.0124	−0.0037	0.0039	−0.0113	0.0039
Family size	0.0022^b	0.0011	0.0001	0.0042	0.0047^c	0.0026	−0.0004	0.0099	0.0012	0.0017	−0.0022	0.0046	0.0014	0.0012	−0.0010	0.0038
No. of obs.	10,596				3,732				3,077				3,787

Note: ^aStatistically significant at the 1% level, ^bstatistically significant at the 5% level, ^cstatistically significant at the 10% level; S.E. robust standard errors; marginal effects instead of the original coefficients are reported to show the marginal change of the dependent variable given a one unit change in an explanatory variable. The reference groups were: “the poorest” for “per capita household expense”; “no” for “children had insurance”; “0-2” for “children’s age”; “female” for “gender was male”; “others” for “ethnicity was Han”; “rural” for “urban”; “Shannan” for “region”

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