Skip to main content

Table 6 Proportion of participants visiting health care services at least once during the previous 12 months

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

 

Women

Men

 

General practitioner n=6844

Somatic specialist services n=6401

Psychiatric specialist services n=5818

General practitioner n=6006

Somatic specialist services n=5753

Psychiatric specialist services n=5304

 

Rate/100 (95% CI)

Rate/100 (95% CI)

Rate/100 (95% CI)

Rate/100 (95% CI)

Rate/100 (95% CI)

Rate/100 (95% CI)

Total

86.2 (85.3-87.0)

44.6 (43.4-45.9)

4.8 (4.2-5.3)

78.7 (77.7-79.7)

38.1 (36.9-39.4)

3.4 (2.9-3.9)

Age

n=6844

n=6401

n=5818

n=6006

n=5753

n=5304

30-39

85.5 (81.4-89.5)

40.6 (34.9-46.4)

8.4 (5.0-11.7)

72.4 (66.3-78.4)

28.6 (22.5-34.8)

1.5 (−0.2-3.2)

40–49

82.3 (80.6-84.0)

41.0 (38.7-43.2)

6.5 (5.3-7.7)

68.3 (66.0-70.5)

28.3 (26.1-30.5)

3.3 (2.4-4.2)

50–59

83.5 (81.4-85.5)

44.8 (42.1-47.6)

4.2 (3.0-5.4)

76.6 (74.1-79.0)

36.8 (34.0-39.7)

3.7 (2.5-4.8)

60–69

86.9 (85.5-88.4)

45.5 (43.3-47.8)

3.3 (2.5-4.2)

82.3 (80.7-84.0)

42.7 (40.5-45.0)

2.9 (2.1-3.7)

70–79

93.2 (91.6-94.8)

48.7 (45.3-52.0)

4.1 (2.7-5.5)

92.2 (90.4-94.0)

49.5 (46.0-53.0)

4.7 (3.1-6.3)

80-87

93.9 (91.3-96.5)

53.3 (47.4-59.2)

4.1 (1.6-6.6)

91.7 (87.8-95.6)

48.7 (40.9-56.6)

4.1 (0.9-7.2)

Marital status

n=6558

n=6160

n=5620

n=5897

n=5660

n=5218

Married/cohabitant

85.3 (84.3-86.3)

43.1 (41.6-44.6)

4.1 (3.5-4.7)

79.1 (77.9-80.2)

38.4 (37.0-39.8)

3.0 (2.4-3.5)

Single

88.0 (86.6-89.4)

47.8 (45.6-50.1)

6.2 (5.1-7.4)

77.5 (75.0-80.0)

37.1 (34.1-40.1)

4.7 (3.3-6.0)

Self-rated health

n=6781

n=6349

n=5776

n=5969

n=5723

n=5275

Bad

97.3 (95.8-98.9)

63.9 (59.0-68.8)

15.4 (11.5-19.3)

96.1 (93.9-98.4)

65.9 (60.3-71.6)

11.1 (7.0-15.1)

Fair

93.3 (92.2-94.4)

53.0 (50.7-55.3)

5.8 (4.6-6.9)

88.0 (86.4-89.5)

46.1 (43.7-48.6)

5.4 (4.2-6.6)

Good

85.0 (83.8-86.2)

41.2 (39.5-42.9)

3.8 (3.1-4.5)

75.9 (74.4-77.4)

35.0 (33.3-36.7)

2.4 (1.8-2.9)

Excellent

71.7 (68.9-74.4)

33.3 (30.4-36.2)

2.6 (1.6-3.6)

64.3 (61.1-67.6)

25.2 (22.2-28.2)

1.0 (0.3-1.8)

  1. CI, confidence interval.