Socioeconomic differences in use of health care among children in the Nordic countries as a whole. Odds ratios with the highest group as a reference
| Odds ratios | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % of children | GP | Phone call | Specialist | Hospital | |||||||||
| *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001. Model I: adjusted for age, sex, and urbanisation grade. Model II: additionally adjusted for health. Model III: as model II but additionally adjusted for other SES in the table. | |||||||||||||
| Model | I | II | III | I | II | III | I | II | III | I | II | III | |
| Mother's education | |||||||||||||
| University/college | 29.8 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Secondary school (>12 years) | 25.0 | 1.09 | 1.06 | 1.03 | 0.92 | 0.86* | 0.89 | 0.94 | 0.90 | 0.91 | 1.62*** | 1.57*** | 1.58** |
| Secondary school (10–12 years) | 27.4 | 1.13 | 1.09 | 1.04 | 0.85* | 0.80** | 0.86 | 0.99 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 1.54*** | 1.40* | 1.37* |
| Primary school | 17.8 | 0.97 | 0.92 | 0.86 | 0.83* | 0.71*** | 0.73** | 0.72* | 0.64*** | 0.68** | 1.86*** | 1.70*** | 1.66** |
| 100.0 | |||||||||||||
| Father's education | |||||||||||||
| University/college | 29.7 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Secondary school (>12 years) | 23.9 | 1.07 | 1.03 | 1.01 | 0.93 | 0.84* | 0.86 | 0.95 | 0.91 | 0.99 | 1.40* | 1.34* | 1.14 |
| Secondary school (10–12 years) | 25.2 | 1.04 | 1.03 | 1.04 | 0.80** | 0.74*** | 0.81* | 0.87 | 0.80* | 0.90 | 1.28 | 1.25 | 1.03 |
| Primary school | 21.2 | 1.06 | 1.02 | 1.07 | 0.81** | 0.75*** | 0.83 | 0.88 | 0.81* | 1.04 | 1.46* | 1.48** | 1.19 |
| 100.0 | |||||||||||||
| Disposable family income | |||||||||||||
| Highest quartile | 25.3 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Second highest quartile | 27.1 | 1.00 | 1.08 | 1.06 | 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 1.01 | 0.97 | 0.93 | 0.85 |
| Third highest quartile | 23.0 | 1.06 | 1.06 | 1.02 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.95 | 0.89 | 0.85 | 0.91 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.02 |
| Lowest quartile | 24.6 | 1.07 | 1.04 | 1.00 | 1.07 | 0.97 | 1.01 | 0.91 | 0.77** | 0.85 | 1.32* | 1.32* | 1.00 |
| 100.0 | |||||||||||||