Diabetes treatment and control: the effect of public health insurance for the poor in Mexico
Sandra G Sosa-Rubí, Omar Galárraga & Ruy López-Ridaura
Volume 87, Number 7, July 2009, 512-519
Table 2. Logistic modela of the propensity score to estimate the effect of Seguro Popular enrolment on diabetes treatment and control in Mexico, 2006 (n = 1479)
| Variable | Probability of enrolment in the Seguro Popular |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coefficient | Z-value | P-value | |||
| Individual characteristic | |||||
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 0.43 | 3.27 | 0.001 | ||
| Age, in years | |||||
| 20–39 | 0.44 | 1.16 | 0.246 | ||
| 40–59 | 0.28 | 0.78 | 0.434 | ||
| 60–79 | 0.11 | 0.3 | 0.763 | ||
| Marital status | |||||
| Married | 0.43 | 3.06 | 0.002 | ||
| Education | |||||
| Primary school | 0.18 | 1.15 | 0.249 | ||
| Secondary school | –0.20 | –0.77 | 0.444 | ||
| High school/university | –0.61 | –1.67 | 0.094 | ||
| Ethnicity | |||||
| Indigenous | –0.13 | –0.88 | 0.381 | ||
| Household characteristic | |||||
| Family assets | –0.26 | –3.41 | 0.001 | ||
| Regional characteristic | |||||
| Area of residence | |||||
| Metropolitan | –0.03 | –0.18 | 0.860 | ||
| Urban | –0.80 | –4.77 | 0.000 | ||
| Region of residence | |||||
| North | 0.23 | 1.19 | 0.233 | ||
| East-central | –0.43 | –2.39 | 0.017 | ||
| West-central | 0.48 | 3.1 | 0.002 | ||
a Log-likelihood ratio test, χ² (degrees of freedom): 139.15 (15); probability > χ² = 0.000.