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Table 5 The results of marginal effects of the HNB2 as a whole

From: Modeling count data for health care utilization: an empirical study of outpatient visits among Vietnamese older people

Variables

Coefficient (S.E.)

P value

Age

0.154 (0.20)

0.445

Age square

− 0.001 (0.00)

0.361

Sex (male-reference)

  

 Female

− 0.685 (0.42)

0.102

Ethnicity (non-Kinh people-reference)

  

 Kinh people

1.091 (0.385)

0.005

Place of residence (rural areas-reference)

  

 Urban areas

0.480 (0.381)

0.208

Region of Vietnam (Red River Delta-reference)

  

 East Northern Mountainous areas

− 0.692 (0.22)

0.002

 West Northern Mountainous areas

0.003 (0.68)

0.997

 North Central Coast

− 0.226 (0.27)

0.409

 South Central Coast

0.322 (0.31)

0.303

 Central Highlands

1.218 (0.59)

0.042

 Southeast

3.689 (0.64)

0.000

 Mekong Delta

4.136 (0.49)

0.000

Marital status (married-reference)

  

 Single

0.182 (0.24)

0.443

Log household size

− 0.801 (0.35)

0.024

Social health insurance (no-reference)

  

 Yes

0.581 (0.28)

0.039

Employment status (no-reference)

  

 Yes

− 0.172 (0.26)

0.517

Education

0.004 (0.05)

0.933

Log household income

− 0.064 (0.30)

0.831

Health subsidy (no-reference)

  

 Yes

0.591 (0.36)

0.100

Smoking (no-reference)

  

 Yes

− 0.941 (0.37)

0.012

Non-communicable diseases (no-reference)

  

 Yes

2.167 (0.24)

0.000

Disability (no-reference)

  

 Yes

1.158 (0.33)

0.000

  1. HBN2 represents the hurdle negative binomial 2 and S.E. denotes standard errors