Characteristics of recent healthcare users in Jilin China, 2008–2018, by urban and rural settings
| Characteristics | Urban | Rural | χ2 | P values | ||
| N | % | N | % | |||
| Year | 0.36 | 0.834 | ||||
| 2008 | 152 | 14.92 | 330 | 17.61 | ||
| 2013 | 297 | 26.68 | 638 | 29.10 | ||
| 2018 | 579 | 58.40 | 1306 | 53.29 | ||
| Type of diseases | 5.88 | 0.117 | ||||
| Diseases recommended to PHC facilities | 661 | 73.28 | 1519 | 73.30 | ||
| Hypertensions and/or diabetes | 250 | 23.32 | 538 | 24.67 | ||
| Acute upper respiratory tract infections | 137 | 13.56 | 374 | 16.01 | ||
| Other ailments | 274 | 26.72 | 607 | 26.70 | ||
| Diseases not recommended to PHC facilities | 367 | 36.40 | 755 | 32.62 | ||
| Sex | 0.00 | 0.954 | ||||
| Male | 446 | 43.29 | 989 | 43.68 | ||
| Female | 582 | 56.71 | 1285 | 56.32 | ||
| Age | 49.87 | ＜0.001 | ||||
| 15–34 | 96 | 9.15 | 200 | 9.10 | ||
| 35–64 | 561 | 53.96 | 1515 | 65.76 | ||
| 65- | 371 | 36.88 | 559 | 25.14 | ||
| Household income per capita | 686.40 | <0.001 | ||||
| Poor | 118 | 11.68 | 1018 | 46.51 | ||
| Middle | 258 | 24.99 | 829 | 35.36 | ||
| Rich | 651 | 63.33 | 427 | 18.13 | ||
| Missing | 1 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Educational achievement | 911.96 | <0.001 | ||||
| Primary school or below | 169 | 16.92 | 1371 | 58.48 | ||
| Junior high school | 329 | 31.69 | 713 | 32.72 | ||
| Senior high school | 335 | 32.58 | 147 | 6.75 | ||
| College and above | 195 | 18.82 | 42 | 2.05 | ||
| Missing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.04 | ||
| Social health insurance | 26.14 | <0.001 | ||||
| No | 92 | 8.97 | 101 | 4.46 | ||
| Yes | 936 | 91.03 | 2173 | 95.54 | ||
| Ethnicity | 87.91 | <0.001 | ||||
| Han majority | 865 | 85.63 | 2142 | 95.01 | ||
| Minorities | 163 | 14.37 | 132 | 4.99 | ||
The survey investigated 3302 adults (urban 1028, rural 2274) who sought outpatient care during the past 2 weeks of the survey. Proportions were adjusted by sampling weights to yield provincially representative estimates.
PHC facilities included community health centres and stations, township hospitals, village health centres and clinics.
Other ailments include skin diseases, malnutrition or obesity, various kinds of inflammation, angina pectoris, neurological headache, appendicitis, inguinal hernia, foreign bodies in the eye and ear canal, epilepsy, poisoning and so on.
Economic status was assessed by household income per capita and divided into three quantiles for each survey separately. The cut-off points were US$453.2 and US$906.3 for the 2008 survey, US$944.1 and US$1888.2 for the 2013 survey, and US$1007.1 and US$2323.8 for the 2018 survey respectively. 1$=6.62 RMB in 2018.
PHC, primary healthcare.