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Table 2 Joint predictors of health care utilization among older Chinese, 2013

From: Factors predicting health services use among older people in China: An analysis of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2013

Health services utilization

Physical examinations

Inpatient care

Visiting doctors

Coefficient

P > z

Coefficient

P > z

Coefficient

P > z

Age 45–54

      

Age 55–64

0.137

0.023

0.096

0.322

−0.119

0.107

Age 65–74

0.691

0.000

0.199

0.050

0.048

0.570

Age 75+

0.733

0.000

0.405

0.003

−0.095

0.429

Male

      

Female

0.102

0.165

−0.290

0.004

−0.048

0.578

Under primary school

      

School without degree

0.142

0.006

−0.032

0.704

0.018

0.780

College and above degrees

0.886

0.000

−0.201

0.388

0.014

0.940

Communist party member

0.355

0.000

0.228

0.022

0.047

0.616

Not communist party member

      

Married with spouse presented

      

Married with spouse away

−0.239

0.108

−0.186

0.289

0.024

0.847

Separated/divorced/widowed

0.152

0.064

0.185

0.059

0.259

0.017

Single

0.460

0.079

−0.331

0.514

0.055

0.848

Han

      

Minorities

−0.410

0.000

−0.132

0.253

−0.424

0.000

Agricultural household registration

      

Non-agricultural household registration

0.220

0.019

0.015

0.923

−0.043

0.700

Other household registration

0.347

0.096

−0.298

0.380

−0.146

0.512

Urban resident

0.227

0.000

0.166

0.082

0.044

0.540

Rural resident

      

Better living standard

      

About same living standard

−0.216

0.083

0.026

0.887

−0.046

0.762

Worse living standard

−0.360

0.003

−0.084

0.643

−0.118

0.425

Not reported

−0.300

0.027

−0.123

0.538

−0.049

0.763

Average or above household expenditure

0.209

0.000

0.294

0.000

0.139

0.000

Lower than average household expenditure

      

Government insurance

      

Urban employee insurance

0.275

0.147

−0.077

0.743

−0.011

0.960

Urban resident insurance

−0.297

0.172

−0.232

0.414

−0.336

0.171

New rural cooperative insurance

−0.244

0.216

−0.097

0.707

−0.299

0.171

Commercial insurance

0.170

0.452

−0.151

0.632

−0.472

0.071

Other types of insurance

0.149

0.523

−0.029

0.920

−0.077

0.785

No medical insurance

−0.557

0.029

−0.236

0.588

−0.673

0.008

No chronic disease

      

One chronic disease

0.201

0.004

0.267

0.026

0.279

0.001

Two chronic diseases

0.316

0.000

0.367

0.001

0.284

0.001

Three and more chronic diseases

0.568

0.000

0.488

0.000

0.462

0.000

Disease not reported

0.183

0.061

0.124

0.368

0.149

0.141

Any physical disability

0.135

0.269

0.039

0.818

−0.051

0.695

Not physical disability

      

Any functional loss

0.166

0.017

0.131

0.142

0.060

0.419

No functional loss

      

Good perceived health

      

Fair perceived health

0.045

0.453

0.469

0.000

0.593

0.000

Poor perceived health

0.183

0.012

1.262

0.000

1.202

0.000

Very poor perceived health

0.224

0.108

1.435

0.000

1.213

0.000

With ADL

0.043

0.697

0.130

0.291

0.188

0.079

Without ADL

      

Not reported

0.077

0.197

−0.176

0.111

−0.312

0.000

No depression

      

Moderate/mild depression

−0.180

0.018

0.177

0.065

0.137

0.069

Major depression

−0.280

0.030

0.241

0.138

0.313

0.014

Not reported

−0.089

0.299

0.157

0.190

0.012

0.902

Fair/poor memory

0.091

0.147

0.1262

0.166

−0.1982

0.010

Good memory

      

No pain

      

A little pain

−0.044

0.501

0.033

0.762

0.360

0.000

Some pain

−0.008

0.924

0.076

0.486

0.448

0.000

Quite a lot pain

−0.099

0.276

−0.051

0.671

0.371

0.000

A lot pain

−0.051

0.677

−0.197

0.249

0.444

0.001

Not reported

−0.031

0.957

−1.551

0.055

−0.255

0.670

Current a smoker

      

Former a smoker

0.484

0.000

0.979

0.000

−0.036

0.797

Never a smoker

0.330

0.000

0.403

0.001

0.171

0.117

Not reported

0.240

0.006

0.455

0.000

0.044

0.683

Drinking alcohol more than once per month

     

Drinking alcohol less than once per month

0.023

0.804

0.022

0.870

0.201

0.103

Not drinking alcohol

0.107

0.095

0.513

0.000

0.218

0.004

Regular exercises

      

Less than regular exercises

−0.071

0.360

−0.149

0.225

−0.061

0.523

No exercise

−0.134

0.253

0.301

0.054

−0.542

0.000

Not reported

0.032

0.603

−0.094

0.349

−0.109

0.160

Wald chi2(52)

816.22

669.64

943.31

Prob > chi2

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

  1. Data source: Authors’ own calculation using CHARLS 2013 national data
  2. The estimated efficient is significant when its P-value is small than 0.10