Use of high-level health facilities and catastrophic expenditure in Vietnam: can health insurance moderate this relationship?

Table 3 Logistic regression results for catastrophic expenditure

	Quoc Oai		Thuan An
	Model 1 (OR)	Model 2 (OR)	Model 1 (OR)	Model 2 (OR)
Having at least one HI enrollee
No
Yes	0.87	1.60	1.18	1.49
Visit freq. in high level facilities	1.22^***	1.77^***	1.30^***	1.39
HH size	0.73^***	0.73^***	0.88	0.88
Having child ≤6 years
No
Yes	1.06	1.08	0.72	0.71
Having elderly ≥65 years
No
Yes	1.86^**	1.84^**	0.63	0.64
Type of residence (north)
Plain
Mountainous	0.65	0.66
Type of residence (south)
Rural
Urban			2.21	2.22
Wealth quintile
1
2	0.92	0.92	0.65	0.66
3	0.53^**	0.52^**	0.30^**	0.29^**
4	0.27^***	0.27^***	0.41^**	0.40^**
5	0.22^***	0.22^***	0.22^***	0.21^***
Number of chronic disease	1.16^*	1.15^*	1.25	1.25
Number of acute disease	0.87^**	0.87^*	0.98	0.99
Marital status of HH head
Non-married
Married	1.28	1.27	0.80	0.81
Education level of HH head
Primary school (Illiterate)
High school	0.85	0.86	0.97	0.97
College ≦	0.66	0.66	0.88	0.93
Gender of HH head
Male
Female	0.86	0.89	0.94	0.93
Insurance x visit freq. in high level facilities		0.68^*		0.91

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