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 6 Negative binomial regression results on the use of inpatient services in the last year

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

	Number of children’s inpatient visit in the last year (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	0.0567^a	0.0104	0.0364	0.0770	0.2419^a	0.0462	0.1514	0.3324	0.0239	0.0163	−0.0080	0.0558	0.0009	0.0056	−0.0101	0.0119
Per capita household expense
Poor	0.0187^b	0.0080	0.0031	0.0343	0.1042^a	0.0353	0.0349	0.1735	−0.0058	0.0066	−0.0188	0.0072	0.0022	0.0048	−0.0073	0.0116
Average	0.0248^a	0.0090	0.0072	0.0425	0.1355^a	0.0436	0.0500	0.2210	−0.0036	0.0072	−0.0177	0.0105	0.0035	0.0051	−0.0065	0.0134
Rich	0.0419^a	0.0111	0.0200	0.0637	0.1910^a	0.0492	0.0945	0.2875	−0.0106	0.0076	−0.0255	0.0044	0.0191^b	0.0092	0.0011	0.0372
Richest	0.0331^a	0.0103	0.0130	0.0532	0.1533^a	0.0464	0.0623	0.2442	−0.0082	0.0074	−0.0227	0.0063	0.0133^c	0.0071	−0.0007	0.0273
Children had insurance	0.0292^a	0.0049	0.0195	0.0388	0.0941^a	0.0170	0.0609	0.1274	0.0078	0.0156	−0.0227	0.0383	0.0166^a	0.0024	0.0118	0.0214
Children's height (ln)	0.0040	0.0157	−0.0269	0.0348	−0.0107	0.0500	−0.1087	0.0873	0.0545^b	0.0232	0.0090	0.1000	−0.0153	0.0159	−0.0465	0.0160
Children's weight (ln)	−0.0228^a	0.0085	−0.0395	−0.0060	−0.0310	0.0269	−0.0838	0.0217	−0.0591^a	0.0115	−0.0816	−0.0366	−0.0011	0.0078	−0.0163	0.0142
Parental age	0.0004^b	0.0002	0.0001	0.0007	0.0008	0.0005	−0.0002	0.0018	0.0008^a	0.0002	0.0003	0.0012	0.0001	0.0002	−0.0002	0.0004
Children's age
3-5	−0.0114^c	0.0058	−0.0227	0.0000	−0.0446^b	0.0213	−0.0863	−0.0028
6-8	−0.0352^a	0.0054	−0.0458	−0.0246
9-11	−0.0467^a	0.0053	−0.0571	−0.0362					−0.0113^c	0.0065	−0.0241	0.0014
12-14	−0.0480^a	0.0066	−0.0610	−0.0351
15-18	−0.0545^a	0.0077	−0.0697	−0.0394									−0.0008	0.0029	−0.0065	0.0048
Gender was male	0.0116^a	0.0041	0.0036	0.0196	0.0213	0.0153	−0.0086	0.0512	0.0130^b	0.0055	0.0022	0.0237	0.0054^b	0.0026	0.0003	0.0105
Ethnicity was Han	0.0217^b	0.0104	0.0014	0.0421	0.0781^b	0.0341	0.0113	0.1448	0.0080	0.0193	−0.0298	0.0458	−0.0029	0.0135	−0.0293	0.0235
Urban	−0.0113^a	0.0043	−0.0197	−0.0029	−0.0342^b	0.0162	−0.0659	−0.0024	−0.0044	0.0059	−0.0158	0.0071	−0.0030	0.0025	−0.0079	0.0019
Region
Guanzhong	0.0194^a	0.0049	0.0099	0.0289	0.0482^a	0.0176	0.0136	0.0827	0.0278^a	0.0080	0.0121	0.0435	0.0028	0.0027	−0.0024	0.0080
Shanbei	−0.0054	0.0062	−0.0176	0.0068	−0.0368^c	0.0214	−0.0789	0.0052	0.0359^b	0.0156	0.0053	0.0665	−0.0084^a	0.0026	−0.0134	−0.0034
Family size	0.0068^a	0.0020	0.0030	0.0106	0.0326^a	0.0077	0.0176	0.0476	−0.0041^c	0.0024	−0.0088	0.0007	0.0024^b	0.0010	0.0005	0.0044
No. of obs.	9,998				3,546				2,918				3,534

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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