What socio-demographic factors influence poverty and financial health care access among disabled people in Flanders: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Association between poverty threshold (<60% median income, EU SILC) and financial health care access and demographic variables gender, age, dependence level, living alone or together, having a partner, housing situation, having children, monthly income, employment and poverty threshold (n = 889), Flanders, 2010

		Poverty threshold	Financial health care access
		Below	At least one problem			N
		%/mean		%/mean
Gender	Male	15.9	**	19.6	**	496
	Female	27.2		32.3		393
Age	Continuous	45.6		47.0
Level of dependence ¹	1 (i.e. low)	42.6	**	41.5	**	183
	2	24.9		34.7		225
	3	18.4		23.5		196
	4	7.2		9.4		138
	5 (i.e. high)	4.1		7.5		147
Living situation	Alone	10.6	**	19.5	**	518
	Not alone	35.3		33.2		371
Partner	Yes	38.9	**	20.5	**	229
	No	14.7		38.9		660
Housing situation	Institution	6.3	**	5.1	**	237
	Private tenant	25.9		38.6		189
	Social tenant	27.3		34.4		154
	House owner	25.9		27.8		309
Having children	Yes	55.7	**	22.4	**	122
	No	15.4		42.6		767
Monthly income	< €700	100.0	**	39.4	**	33
	€700 - €1099	36.2		37.2		207
	€1100 - €1499	12.5		16.5		399
	€1500 - €1899	18.8		29.2		96
	€1900 - €2299	10.4		34.3		67
	€2300 - €2699	8.3		22.2		36
	€2700 - €3099	0.0		28.0		25
	≥ €3100	0.0		7.7		26
Employment	Yes	18.3		21.6		208
	No	21.7		26.3		681
Poverty threshold	Under	/		46.8	**	665
	Above	/		19.5		224

**p = <0.001.
¹In Belgium, disabled people are assessed according to categories of dependence. These categories determine the financial allowance received and go from one, i.e. the lowest level of dependence, to five, i.e. the highest level of dependence.

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