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Table 3 Coverage and odds ratios for a visit according to labour market status.

From: Employment status and differences in the one-year coverage of physician visits: different needs or unequal access to services?

Labour market status

Coverage(1)

Adjustments

  

None

+ socio-demographics (2)

(2) + perceived health (3)

(2) + disease (4)

Employed

     

   Permanent full-time

94%

1

1

1

1

   Permanent part-time

95%

1.28 (0.85–1.93)

0.99 (0.65–1.52)

0.86 (0.56–1.32)

0.82 (0.57–1.18)

   Fixed-term full-time

91%

0.68 (0.56–0.83)

0.67 (0.55–0.83)

0.64 (0.51–0.79)

0.66 (0.54–0.79)

   Fixed-term part-time

89%

0.58 (0.43–0.84)

0.51 (0.35–0.74)

0.46 (0.31–0.68)

0.47 (0.33–0.66)

Unemployed

     

   Short-term

92%

0.73 (0.48–1.08)

0.69 (0.46–1.04)

0.60 (0.40–0.91)

0.63 (0.43–0.93)

   Prolonged

87%

0.48 (0.32–0.73)

0.47 (0.31–0.71)

0.35 (0.23–0.54)

0.43 (0.29–0.63)

   Long-term

80%

0.28 (0.19–0.40)

0.29 (0.20–0.43)

0.22 (0.15–0.33)

0.25 (0.18–0.36)

  1. (95% confidence intervals without adjustments, with adjustment for socio-demographic factors and with adjustments for health and for disease)
  2. (1) Per cent of respondents with one or more physician visits during the previous twelve months in a public health centre or occupational health care or private services or hospital outpatient clinic or dental services
  3. (2) Gender, age and further education
  4. (3) Self-rated health, breathlessness and depression
  5. (4) Self-reported disease diagnosed by a physician
  6. Interactions with labour market status of the variables included in model (2) + (3):
  7. age, p = 0.103
  8. self-rated health, p = 0.997
  9. sex, p = 0.446
  10. breathlessness, p = 0.499
  11. education, p = 0.398
  12. depression, p = 0.315
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