Trends in the use of health services and their relationship with multimorbidity in Brazil, 1998–2013

de Souza, Ana Sara Semeão; Braga, José Ueleres

doi:10.1186/s12913-020-05938-4

BMC Health Services Research

Table 2 Prevalence of searching health services in the last 15 days stratified by multimorbidity. Brazil, 1998–2013

From: Trends in the use of health services and their relationship with multimorbidity in Brazil, 1998–2013

Variables	Multimorbidity					Without multimorbidity
	1998	2003	2008	2013		1998	2003	2008	2013
	%	%	%	%	p-value^a	%	%	%	%	p-value^a
	25.95	31.54	29.95	34.44	***	9.64	11.15	10.5	15.65	***
Sex
Male	20.57	27.17	26.8	29.88	***	6.67	7.77	8.01	11.86	***
Female	29.05	33.89	31.71	36.48	***	12.73	14.59	13.01	18.58	***
Age
18–29	22.49	28.4	28.77	33.7	***	8.82	9.68	9.27	13.25	***
30–39	23.87	28.31	27.82	34.13	***	9.34	10.9	10.04	14.06	***
40–49	25.6	30.84	30	34.26	***	9.94	11.91	10.76	15.58	***
50–59	25.84	31.86	30.73	35.41	***	10.69	12.4	11.96	16.31	***
60–69	27.78	32.68	29.35	32.82	***	11.81	14.18	12.54	20.77	***
> =70	28.07	33.9	30.89	35.57	***	13.93	16.14	15.33	22.23	***
Race/skin color
White	27.44	32.35	29.93	35.54	***	10.07	11.59	10.93	16.01	***
Brown	25.26	31.88	30.77	36.33	***	9.15	11.35	10.43	14.4	***
Black	25.58	26.84	22.56	41.03		7.63	10.51	11.04	19.03	**
Yellow	23.84	30.28	30.05	31.9	***	9.08	10.53	9.98	15.44	***
Indigenous	35.37	28.09	25.95	56.17		10.85	12.68	13.93	12.06
Education
No schooling	24.21	33.36	31.38	33.95	***	8.55	11.27	10.89	16.34	***
Incomplete elementary school	26.39	31.54	30.19	33.42	***	9.02	10.91	10.51	16.59	***
Complete elementary school	28.02	30.63	30.42	40.36	***	9.44	10.2	10.01	13.43	***
Incomplete high school	26.33	29.85	29.3	27.52		9.48	9.65	9.42	13.96	**
Complete high school	27.72	30.53	29.53	34.7	**	10.56	11.37	10.09	14.6	***
Incomplete university	24.45	29.27	27.92	35.07		11.33	12.02	10	15.07	***
Completed university	31.04	32.38	28.67	34.65	**	12.72	13.9	12.39	17.93	***
Health insurance
Yes	32.4	35.14	32.32	36.89	***	14.0	15.1	13.3	18.85	***
No	23.89	30.03	28.93	33.18	***	8.0	9.74	9.42	14.11	***
Registered in FHT
Yes	–	–	30.96	34.12		–	–	10.87	16.23
No	–	–	28.91	34.16		–	–	10.15	15.49
Health self-assessment
Very good	14.92	19.32	18.25	23.79	***	6.24	7.33	6.93	12.66	***
Good	16.34	21.83	21.16	27.19	***	8.4	9.52	8.78	13.25	***
Regular	26.79	32.82	30.66	36.31	***	18.0	19.65	18.33	22.35	***
Poor	39.1	46.95	41.64	45.05	***	26.54	29.56	28.51	26.14	*
Very poor	47.7	56.48	51.1	49.27	***	29.27	29.43	34.15	35.99
Limitation of usual activities
Yes	58.05	65	60.24	62.37	***	56.08	56.87	52.23	63.36	***
No	18.8	23.63	21.37	27.8	***	7.62	8.89	7.86	12.39	***

Note: ^a: Test Wald (Pearson) adjusted for the linear tendency; p-value: * ≤ 0.05, ** ≤ 0.01, *** ≤ 0.001

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