Determinants of basic public health services provision by village doctors in China: using non-communicable diseases management as an example

Table 2 The differences of individual level characteristics by BPHS provision in China

Variables	Low-level BPHS (n = 170) Percentage (%)	High-level BPHS (n = 979) Percentage (%)	P value ^b
Gender			0.002
Male	65.9	76.8
Female	34.1	23.2
Age (years)			0.030
20–39	30.6	29.8
40–59	45.9	54.4
60 +	23.5	15.8
Education			<0.001
≤ Junior high school	24.1	11.0
Secondary school	65.3	68.6
> Secondary school	10.6	20.3
Average monthly income (CNY) ^c			<0.001
Low	49.5	31.5
Ordinary	22.9	34.5
High	27.6	34.0
Frequency of training in last 3 years ^a	11.5	12.9	0.049
Monthly public health care subsidy (CNY) ^c			<0.001
None	17.6	13.2
1–300	74.2	56.4
More than 300	8.2	30.4
Integrated Management			<0.001
Low	82.4	43.0
High	17.6	57.0
NCMS-contracted			<0.001
No	70.0	24.8
Yes	30.0	75.2

^a Training opportunity last 3 years is a continuous variable, presented by mean instead of percentage
^b P value by chi-square test in categorical variables and t-test in continuous variables
^c USD $1 = CNY 6.199 (June 1, 2015)

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