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Table 1 Women’s probability of health care services utilisation at least once during the previous 12 months*

From: Socio-economic inequalities in health care utilisation in Norway: a population based cross-sectional survey

 

General practitioner n=5184

Somatic specialist services n=4956

Psychiatric specialist services n=4513

 

OR (95% CI)

OR for trend (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR for trend (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR for trend (95% CI)

Marital status

      

Married/cohabitant (1)

0.91 (0.72-1.14)

0.90 (0.72-1.12)

0.77 (0.66-0.91)

0.77 (0.66-0.90)

0.74 (0.50-1.09)

0.75 (0.52-1.10)

Single (0)

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

Household income

      

Low (1)

0.97 (0.64-1.46)

0.97 (0.85-1.09)

0.66 (0.50-0.88)

1.11 (1.01-1.21)

3.82 (1.93-7.57)

0.69 (0.56-0.86)

Low middle (2)

1.07 (0.81-1.43)

 

0.88 (0.71-1.08)

 

2.05 (1.18-3.56)

 

High middle (3)

0.98 (0.79-1.21)

 

0.93 (0.79-1.10)

 

1.68 (1.09-2.59)

 

High (4)

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

Education

      

Low (1)

1.16 (0.90-1.49)

0.93 (0.82-1.05)

0.62 (0.51-0.74)

1.27 (1.16-1.39)

0.44 (0.27-0.71)

1.57 (1.24-1.98)

Middle (2)

1.12 (0.92-1.37)

 

0.88 (0.76-1.02)

 

0.52 (0.36-0.75)

 

High (3)

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

Self-rated occupational status

      

Low (1)

1.12 (0.80-1.55)

0.95 (0.82-1.09)

0.93 (0.74-1.17)

1.04 (0.94-1.15)

1.17 (0.69-1.99)

0.96 (0.74-1.23)

Middle (2)

1.07 (0.90-1.28)

 

0.93 (0.81-1.06)

 

1.04 (0.74-1.47)

 

High (3)

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

Self -rated health

      

Bad (1)

11.34 (5.49-23.41)

0.48 (0.42-0.54)

4.62 (3.40-6.28)

0.60 (0.55-0.65)

10.82 (5.83-20.08)

0.49 (0.41-0.59)

Fair (2)

4.31 (3.30-5.62)

 

2.69 (2.22-3.26)

 

2.83 (1.63-4.94)

 

Good (3)

2.01 (1.67-2.42)

 

1.55 (1.31-1.83)

 

1.98 (1.19-3.31)

 

Excellent (4)

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 
  1. OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.
  2. * Age adjusted multivariate logistic regressions including all left column variables.