Financial crisis and income-related inequalities in the universal provision of a public service: the case of healthcare in Spain

Abásolo, Ignacio; Saez, Marc; López-Casasnovas, Guillem

doi:10.1186/s12939-017-0630-y

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 2 Descriptive statistics

From: Financial crisis and income-related inequalities in the universal provision of a public service: the case of healthcare in Spain

Variable	Definition	2006			2011			Difference	p-value^*
Variable	Definition	N	Mean	Std. Dev.	N	Mean	Std. Dev.	Difference	p-value^*
APPUB	Use of primary health care public services	29,252	0.411	0.782	19,782	0.355	0.695	−13.7%	0.000
AEPUB	Use of specialist medical public services	29,252	0.189	0.596	7435	0.487	0.847	158.2%	0.000
HOSPPUB	Use of public health services, hospitalisations	28,905	0.106	0.386	18,865	0.094	0.415	−11.3%	0.000
URGPUB	Use of public health services, emergency services	28,227	0.426	1.493	19,212	0.428	1.051	0.6%	0.208
MEDICINES	Number of drugs consumed in the last 12 months	29,252	1.811	1.928	19,782	1.652	2.007	−8.8%	0.000
APPRI	Use of primary health care private services	29,252	0.069	0.131	19,782	0.045	0.089	−33.9%	0.000
AEPRI	Use of specialist medical private services	29,252	0.032	0.100	7435	0.062	0.109	97.7%	0.000
HOSPPRI	Use of private health services, hospitalisations	28,905	0.011	0.112	18,865	0.005	0.073	−57.3%	0.000
URGPRI	Use of private health services, emergency services	28,227	0.029	0.218	18,044	0.012	0.125	−58.3%	0.000
SEGUROP	private insurance (1 if yes; 0 otherwise)	29,252	0.125		19,281	0.134		7.2%	0.004
SEXO	gender (1 if female; 0 if male)	29,252	0.606		19,281	0.539		−11.2%	0.000
EDAD_15_35	age group (1 if age between 15 and 35; 0 otherwise)^a	29,712	0.240		19,935	0.229		−4.6%	0.005
EDAD_36_45	age group (1 if age between 36 and 45; 0 otherwise)	29,712	0.198		19,935	0.187		−5.6%	0.002
EDAD_46_55	age group (1 if age between 46 and 55; 0 otherwise)	29,712	0.159		19,935	0.163		2.7%	0.206
EDAD_56_65	age group (1 if age between 56 and 65; 0 otherwise)	29,712	0.136		19,935	0.107		−21.3%	0.000
EDAD_66_75	age group (1 if age between 66 and 75; 0 otherwise)	29,712	0.134		19,935	0.136		1.3%	0.568
EDAD_75_MORE	age group (1 if older than 75; 0 otherwise)	29,712	0.118		19,935	0.145		23.6%	0.000
SMENTAL	mental health index	28,027	1.590	2.606	18,989	1.573	2.746	−1.1%	0.000

^* p-value for two-sample Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann-Whitney) test for equality of medians in continuous variab or Fisher exact test for equality of proportions in categorical variables
^a16 years for ENS 2006

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