Inequities in access to healthcare: analysis of national survey data across six Asia-Pacific countries

Meyer, Samantha B; Luong, Tini CN; Mamerow, Loreen; Ward, Paul R

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-238

BMC Health Services Research

Table 3 Summary of variables associated with difficulties in access to healthcare

From: Inequities in access to healthcare: analysis of national survey data across six Asia-Pacific countries

Country		Difficulties due to distance	Difficulties in getting	Difficulty due to	Difficulties due to cost
			an appointment	waiting times
Australia	Demographic	Married, divorced, widowed or	Female; married	Female; worked part-	Female; married or
	Demographic	separated	Female; married	time	cohabiting
	Health	Felt very unhappy with their health;	Nil	Nil	Nil
	related	Felt very unhappy with their health;	Nil	Nil	Nil
	Economic	S some savings and borrowed	Just got by, spent	Just got by financially	Second-lowest income
		money; or fell in the lowest income	savings, or spent	in the last year, spent	quartile; just got by
		quartile group	savings and borrowed	some savings or spent	financially or spend
			money	some savings and	savings and borrowed
			money	borrowed money	money
Hong Kong	Demographic	Nil	Aged 60 years or older	Retired or pensioner	Retired/pensioner
	Health	Nil	Nil	Nil	Perceived health to be
	related				neither important nor
	related				unimportant
	Economic	Spent some savings or fell in the lowest	Nil	Nil	Nil
	Economic	income quartile group	Nil	Nil	Nil
Japan	Demographic	Nil	Nil	30–39 years of age	Nil
	Health	Rated their health as very bad	Satisfied with their	Rated their health as	Rated their health as fair, or
	related		health	good, fair, bad, or	rated their health as bad
	related		health	very bad	rated their health as bad
	Economic	Nil	Nil	Nil	Spent some savings or spent some savings and borrowed money
Korea	Demographic	Nil	Nil	Nil	Female
	Health	Fair state of health, very bad health;	Nil	Nil	Nil
	related	chronic health condition	Nil	Nil	Nil
	Economic	Nil	Nil	Nil	Spent savings and borrow
	Economic	Nil	Nil	Nil	money
Taiwan	Demographic	Divorced; part-time workers	Nil	Nil	Work part-time
	Health	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
	related	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
	Economic	Spent their savings or spent their	Nil	Spend some savings	Just got by, spent savings,
		savings and borrowed			spent savings and
		savings and borrowed			borrowed money
Thailand		Work for their family, a	Work for their family,	Work for family	Nil
		housewife/househusband or a	work part-time
		student/unemployed/other
		Rated their health as being good, fair or	Nil	Nil	Nil
		bad	Nil	Nil	Nil
		Just got by financially, spent some	Nil	Just got by	Spend savings, or spend
		savings or spent some savings and	Nil	financially, or spent	savings and borrowed
		borrowed money; and		their savings and	money
				borrowed money

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