Table 3 Descriptive statistics of health poverty vulnerability measurement samples

Self-evaluation of health

1(Very healthy)

348

10.77

Age

68.442

6.473

2(Healthier)

303

9.38

Received medicaid last year

14.1272

400.849

3(Healthy)

1410

43.64

Medical distance

11.6591

18.7078

4(Unhealthy)

1170

36.21

Number of hospitalizations in a year

0.3423

0.8793

Pain

1(Yes)

2131

65.95

0(No)

1100

34.05

Chronic disease

1(Yes)

1573

48.68

0(No)

1658

51.32

Gender

1(Male)

1567

48.50

2(Female)

1664

51.50

Marital status

1(living with spouse)

2608

80.72

2(Separation/divorce)

33

1.02

3(Widowed/unmarried)

590

18.26

Participating in the new rural cooperative medical insurance

1(Yes)

2928

90.62

0(No)

303

9.38

Taking out critical illness insurance

1(Yes)

116

3.59

0(No)

3115

96.41

Whether medicaid

1(Yes)

13

0.40

0(No)

3218

99.60

Master self-treatment

1(Yes)

2031

62.86

0(No)

1200

37.14

Smoking

1(Yes)

90

2.79

0(No)

3141

97.21

Drinking

1(Yes)

962

29.77

0(No)

2269

70.23

Checking blood pressure regularly

1(Yes)

1270

39.31

0(No)

1961

60.69

Checking for diabetes often

1(Yes)

106

3.28

0(No)

3125

96.72

Medical service satisfaction

1(Extremely satisfied)

571

17.67

2(Greatly satisfied)

797

24.67

3(Satisfied)

1334

41.29

4(Less satisfied)

215

6.65

5(Completely dissatisfied)

314

9.72