Health insurance coverage, medical expenditure and coping strategy: evidence from Taiwan

Table 4 Logistic regression results of coping strategies

Variables	Salary	Salary + Saving
Household size	1.091 ***	0.255***
House income (baseline: <135K)
B: between 135K and 225K	0.569 ***	0.490***
C: between 225K and 450K	0.602 ***	0.197***
D: between 450K and 675K	1.033	0.518***
E: over 675K	0.619 ***	0.127***
Presence of chronic disease	0.882	1.622 ***
Presence of inpatient treatment	1.317***	1.866 ***
Public insurance coverage	0.655	0.066 ***
Private insurance coverage	0.861	0.025 ***
Regions (Offshore islands as baseline)
Northern area	0.983	0.985
Central area	1.017	1.176
Southern area	1.034	1.144
Eastern area	0.928	0.769

Note: Numbers presented are “odds ratio”. ***statistically significant at 1%, **statistically significant at 5%. *statistically significant at 10%. In the first regression, the outcome variable “using salary (A)” was coded as 0, and “using other means (B-E)” was coded as 1. In the second regression, the outcome variable “salary or saving (A-B)” was coded as 0, and “other means (C-E)” was coded as 1.

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