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Table 3 Health services utilization

From: Does health insurance impact health service utilization among older adults in urban China? A nationwide cross-sectional study

 

Outpatient visits in the past two weeks

 

Hospital admission within the past year

2008

2013

2008

2013

Uninsured

URBMI

Uninsured

URBMI

Uninsured

URBMI

Uninsured

URBMI

Total

388 (30.1%)

193 (23.7%)

181 (25.0%)

1842 (27.0%)

Total

127 (9.9%)

108 (13.3%)

85 (11.7%)*

1129 (16.6%)*

Sex

Sex

 Men

127 (28.3%)

50 (19.6%)

89 (31.9%)

637 (26.2%)

Men††

30 (6.7%)**

39 (15.3%)**

43 (15.4%)

346 (14.2%)

 Women

261 (31.1%)

143 (25.5%)

92 (20.7%)

1025 (27.4%)

Women#

97 (11.5%)

69 (12.3%)

42 (9.4%)**

783 (17.8%)**

Age group

Age group

 60–69

143 (26.6%)

86 (24.2%)

80 (24.9%)

966 (24.5%)

60–69

40 (7.4%)

37 (10.4%)

34 (10.6%)

524 (13.3%)

 70–79

139 (30.4%)

80 (24.8%)

63 (27.0%)

646 (32.1%)

70–79

49 (10.7%)

50 (15.5%)

31 (13.3%)*

446 (22.1%)*

 80+

106 (36.2%)

27 (19.7%)

38 (22.4%)

230 (26.7%)

80+

38 (13.0%)

21 (15.3%)

20 (11.8%)

159 (18.5%)

Income group (per person)

Income group (per person)

 Low

145 (26.7%)

46 (26.3%)

66 (22.5%)

627 (22.2%)

Low

46 (8.5%)

27 (15.4%)

26 (8.9%)*

447 (15.8%)*

 Middle

126 (31.5%)

62 (23.0%)

25 (15.8%)*

516 (29.5%)*

Middle

37 (9.3%)

30 (11.1%)

7 (4.4%)**

304 (17.4%)**

 High

117 (34.1%)

85 (23.0%)

90 (33.0%)

699 (31.1%)

High

43 (12.5%)

51 (13.8%)

52 (19.0%)

378 (16.8%)

  1. * Significant difference between uninsured and URBMI; * for P < 0.05, ** for P < 0.01
  2. †Significant difference for uninsured between 2008 and 2013, † for P < 0.05, †† for P < 0.01
  3. #Significant difference for URBMI between 2008 and 2013, # for P < 0.05, ## for P < 0.01