Horizontal inequity in the use and access to health care in Uruguay

Table 1 Descriptive statistic, population 18 years of age or older, 2014

	Percentage	Confidence intervals (95%)
Age
18–44	0.487	0.4715	0.5033
45–59	0.198	0.1853	0.2106
60 +	0.315	0.2999	0.3294
Men	0.438	0.4218	0.4533
Health coverage
Not coverage	0.018	0.0136	0.0220
Private coverage by FONASA	0.517	0.4980	0.5298
Public coverage by FONASA	0.077	0.0686	0.0856
Private coverage	0.099	0.0889	0.1078
Public coverage	0.307	0.2926	0.3219
Personal habits:
Unhealthy diet	0.618	0.6023	0.6332
Sedentary life	0.168	0.1549	0.1803
Alcohol	0.099	0.0897	0.1101
Tobacco	0.232	0.2175	0.2461
Health status
Chronic noncommunicable diseases	0.563	0.5474	0.5789
Physical limitations	0.118	0.1075	0.1280
Health care utilization
Physician visits (30 days)	0.333	0.3183	0.3482
Medical exams (30 days)	0.112	0.1024	0.1225
Use of medications (30 days)	0.709	0.6943	0.7231
Non-access by cost-problems (12 months)	0.091	0.0818	0.1001
Non-access by logistic-problems (12 months)	0.126	0.1153	0.1364
PAP Smear (3 years)	0.397 (a)	0.3738	0.4193
Prostate examination (ever)	0.471 (b)	0.4373	0.5039
N total sample	3814
Person expansion factor	675.154	657.3001	693.0086

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