aDepartment of Urban Policy and Administration, Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea
bDepartment of Health Management, Sahmyook University, Seoul, Korea
Copyright ©2020, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Study variables | Emergency care utilization | |
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% | χ2 | |
Predisposing | ||
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Age (y) | 8.75* | |
65–74 | 28.28 | |
75+ | 37.51 | |
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Sex | 164.73* | |
Male | 11.65 | |
Female | 54.14 | |
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Education | 16.38* | |
No schooling | 13.92 | |
Primary/middle schooling | 40.47 | |
High schooling † | 11.40 | |
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Marital status | 217.45* | |
Married | 29.92 | |
Others | 35.87 | |
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Need | ||
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Self-perceived health status | 149.27* | |
Poor | 25.49 | |
Fair † | 39.68 | |
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Disability | 21.18* | |
Yes | 17.10 | |
No | 48.69 | |
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Enabling | ||
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Income (10,000 won) | 122.43* | |
0 | 36.09 | |
1–2,000 | 18.96 | |
2,000 † | 10.74 | |
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Residence | 9.68* | |
Capital area | 24.19 | |
Non-capital area | 41.61 |
Determinants | Emergency care utilization | |||||
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Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | ||||
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Odds ratio (95% CI) | p | Odds ratio (95% CI) | p | Odds ratio (95% CI) | p | |
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Age group (y) | < 0.01 | |||||
65–74 | 1.49 (1.37–1.61) | < 0.01 | 1.59 (1.46–1.73) | < 0.01 | 1.58 (1.46–1.72) | |
75+ | ref. | ref. | ref. | |||
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Sex | < 0.01 | |||||
Male | 0.76 (0.70–0.83) | < 0.01 | 0.78 (0.71–0.85) | < 0.01 | 0.77 (0.70–0.84) | |
Female | ref. | ref. | ref. | |||
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Education | 0.116 | |||||
Primary schooling * | 0.31 (0.28–0.35) | < 0.01 | 0.90 (0.80–1.00) | 0.057 | 0.91 (0.81–1.02) | |
No schooling | ref. | ref. | ref. | |||
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Marital status | < 0.05 | |||||
Married | 0.98 (0.89–1.07) | 0.604 | 1.20 (1.09–1.31) | < 0.01 | 1.21 (1.10–1.32) | |
Others | ref. | ref. | ref. | |||
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Need | ||||||
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Self-perceived health status | < 0.01 | |||||
Poor | 2.45 (2.26–2.65) | < 0.01 | 2.46 (2.26–2.66) | |||
Fair * | ref. | ref. | ||||
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Disability | < 0.01 | |||||
Yes | 1.39 (1.27–1.54) | < 0.01 | 1.39 (1.26–1.53) | |||
No | ref. | ref. | ||||
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Enabling | ||||||
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Income (10,000 won) † | 0.611 | |||||
0–20 | 0.98 (0.88–1.08) | |||||
20 + | ref. | |||||
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Residence | < 0.01 | |||||
Capital area | 0.87 (0.80–0.94) | |||||
Non-capital area | ref. | |||||
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Model chi-square | 770.43 | 805.33 | 816.71 | |||
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Degrees of freedom | 4 | 6 | 8 | |||
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Significance | < 0.0001 | < 0.0001 | < 0.0001 |