Long-term care use and socio-economic status in Belgium: a survival analysis using health care insurance data

Table 2 Association between preferential status and the first occurrence of five chronic conditions and death within the permanent sample of persons covered by the Belgian public health insurance (2004–09)

Dep. variable	Model	Men				Women
		Est.	St.error	Sign.	Est.	St.error	Sign.
COPD		0.317	0.046	0.000	0.250	0.081	0.002
Dementia		0.074	0.064	0.247	0.125	0.099	0.205
Diabetes		0.237	0.059	0.000	0.381	0.091	0.000
Hip fracture		−0.023	0.088	0.792	0.074	0.108	0.496
Parkinson’s disease		0.079	0.108	0.466	0.273	0.191	0.152
Death		0.152	0.036	0.000	0.095	0.036	0.009
Death	interaction with age
	dummy preferential status:	0.378	0.082	0.000	0.052	0.096	0.589
	interaction variable*:	−0.015	0.005	0.002	0.002	0.005	0.629
Death	with chronic conditions and
	interaction with age
	dummy preferential status:	0.381	0.082	0.000	0.055	0.096	0.563
	interaction variable*:	−0.016	0.005	0.001	0.002	0.005	0.636

Coefficients estimated by discrete survival analysis using logistic regression.
Also included in all models: age, partner (time-dependent), province, year, quarter.
* interaction variable is specified as preferential_status * (age – 65).

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