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Table 3 Use of General Practitioner and Emergency Room services by immigrants’ country of origin. Logistic regression analyses with Somalia as the reference group

From: Differences in primary health care use among sub-Saharan African immigrants in Norway: a register-based study

 

Use of GP (yes/no)

Use of ER (yes/no)

 

OR (95% CI)

P-value

Nagelkerke R2

OR (95% CI)

Nagelkerke R2

P-value

Model 1

 Somalia

1

 

0.017

1

0.007

 

 Ethiopia

0.94 (0.88–0.99)

0.048

 

0.88 (0.81–0.95)

 

0.002

 Eritrea

0.92 (0.86–0.98)

0.012

 

0.56 (0.51–0.62)

  

 Gambia

0.92 (0.84–1.01)

0.095

 

0.81 (0.71–0.92)

 

0.002

Model 2

 Somalia

1

 

0.025

1

0.011

 

 Ethiopia

0.91 (0.86–0.97)

0.004

 

0.89 (0.82–0.96)

 

0.005

 Eritrea

0.85 (0.79–0.91)

<0.001

 

0.57 (0.51–0.63)

 

<0.001

 Gambia

0.88 (0.80–0.97)

0.010

 

0.83 (0.73–0.94)

 

0.005

Model 3

 Somalia

1

 

0.050

1

0.014

 

 Ethiopia

0.83 (0.78–0.88)

<0.001

 

0.85 (0.79–0.93)

 

<0.001

 Eritrea

0.80 (0.74–0.85)

<0.001

 

0.55 (0.50–0.61)

 

<0.001

 Gambia

0.83 (0.75–0.91)

<0.001

 

0.80 (0.70–0.91)

 

0.001

  1. Model 1: unadjusted; Model 2: adjusted for gender and age categorized into four groups (0–14, 15–44; 45–64 and 65+ years of age); Model 3: adjusted for gender, age categorized into four groups (0–14, 15–44; 45–64 and 65+ years of age) and employment status
  2. OR Odds ratio, 95% confidence interval
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