Table 3

Health care use

	Number of contacts with GP¶		Number of contacts with specialist¶
Variable†	β§	95% CI	β§	95% CI
¶Probit results and inverse mill ratio not shown. †Coefficients of the disease specific dummies are not shown. At the α=5% level the following disease dummies are significant for (1) GP: asthma, chronic bronchitis, heart disease, hypertension, chronic bladder infection, diabetes, thyroid gland disease, depression, arthrosis, stomach ulcer. (2) Specialist: asthma, chronic bronchitis, allergy, heart disease, hypertension, kidney disease, chronic bladder infection, epilepsy, migraine, cancer. §Unstandardised coefficients. Significant at α=0.05; at α=0.01; **at α=0.001.
Intercept	0.949	0.78 to 1.117***	0.58084	0.446 to 0.716***
Sex (female)	0.072	0.026 to 0.117***	0.08755	0.051 to 0.124***
Age (y)	0.007	0.005 to 0.009***	−0.00301	−0.004 to −0.002***
Number of diseases/chronic disorders	0.108	0.093 to 0.123***	0.06586	0.054 to 0.078***
SF-36 physical score	−0.010	−0.011 to −0.009***	−0.00209	−0.003 to −0.001***
GHQ-12 score	0.021	0.013 to 0.029***	0.01323	0.007 to 0.02***
Subjective health (very bad to fair)	0.254	0.192 to 0.316***	0.11959	0.07 to 0.17***
Obesity (BMI ≥30)	0.027	−0.043 to 0.097	−0.04259	−0.099 to 0.014
SES 1st quintile	0.077	0.007 to 0.148*	−0.1702	−0.227 to −0.113***
SES 2nd quintile	0.110	0.039 to 0.18***	−0.12475	−0.181 to −0.068***
SES 3rd quintile	0.093	0.023 to 0.162***	−0.12005	−0.176 to −0.064***
SES 4th quintile	0.041	−0.028 to 0.111	−0.07572	−0.132 to −0.02***
F	219		44
R²	0.25		0.06