Differences in health services use by income among participants of the Nova Scotia Nutrition Survey
| Family physician services | Specialist services | Days in hospital | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income | N | OR | 95% CI | N | OR | 95% CI | N | OR | 95% CI |
| N, Median annual number of family physician services, specialist services, or days of hospitalisation; OR, odds ratio adjusted for age and gender differences; 95% CI, 95% confidence intervals of odds ratio. | |||||||||
| <$20000 | 6.88 | reference | 1.88 | reference | 0.75 | reference | |||
| $20000–$40000 | 4.38 | 0.65 | 0.52 to 0.83 | 1.25 | 1.02 | 0.81 to 1.30 | 0.00 | 0.62 | 0.49 to 0.79 |
| >$40000 | 3.75 | 0.51 | 0.39 to 0.66 | 1.00 | 0.96 | 0.74 to 1.25 | 0.00 | 0.58 | 0.45 to 0.75 |