Table 3

Socioeconomic differences of the use of health services. Odds ratios adjusted for health, age, sex, and urbanisation grade for children with parents in the lowest SES group (as given in the table). The highest SES group as a reference*

	Mother only primary school		Father only primary school		Lowest income quartile
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
*Statistically significant results are shown in bold type.
General practitioner
Sweden	0.90	0.62 to 1.29	1.20	0.83 to 1.73	1.08	0.75 to 1.55
Iceland	0.95	0.67 to 1.34	0.88	0.91 to 1.28	0.96	0.69 to 1.33
Norway	0.79	0.54 to 1.16	1.12	0.78 to 1.62	1.02	0.73 to 1.45
Finland	0.91	0.62 to 1.33	1.03	0.69 to 1.54	1.54	1.01 to 2.16
Denmark	0.63	0.39 to 1.02	0.88	0.61 to 1.27	0.75	0.53 to 1.07
Phone call
Sweden	0.92	0.65 to 1.32	1.26	0.87 to 1.81	1.04	0.73 to 1.49
Iceland	0.75	0.52 to 1.10	0.66	0.44 to 1.99	0.86	0.61 to 1.23
Norway	0.75	0.52 to 1.12	0.72	0.49 to 1.07	0.89	0.63 to 1.27
Finland	0.78	0.50 to 1.21	0.74	0.47 to 1.18	0.99	0.67 to 1.44
Denmark	0.81	0.53 to 1.24	0.99	0.71 to 1.39	1.08	0.78 to 1.50
Specialist
Sweden	0.77	0.52 to 1.14	1.10	0.75 to 1.62	0.83	0.56 to 1.24
Iceland	0.88	0.60 to 1.28	0.80	0.54 to 1.18	0.84	0.59 to 1.20
Norway	0.51	0.30 to 0.85	0.76	0.47 to 1.21	0.64	0.41 to 1.02
Finland	0.34	0.21 to 0.55	0.63	0.40 to 0.99	0.56	0.38 to 0.84
Denmark	0.52	0.29 to 0.91	0.62	0.40 to 0.97	0.91	0.62 to 1.33
Hospital
Sweden	1.78	0.98 to 3.23	1.58	0.88 to 2.83	0.81	0.44 to 1.50
Iceland	1.19	0.64 to 2.21	1.08	0.55 to 2.12	0.91	0.52 to 1.60
Norway	1.92	1.04 to 3.57	1.04	0.52 to 2.07	1.39	0.75 to 2.59
Finland	1.39	0.67 to 2.91	1.37	0.66 to 2.83	1.55	0.87 to 2.66
Denmark	2.22	1.15 to 4.33	2.02	1.12 to 3.64	1.21	0.68 to 2.17