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Table 1 Patients’ self-rated health status by different characteristics

From: Contribution of primary care to health: an individual level analysis from Tibet, China

Characteristics

Poor health (%) (n = 802)

Good health (%) (n = 584)

P-valuea

Location

  

<0.01

 Urban

448 (64.7)

244 (35.3)

 

 Rural

354 (51.0)

340 (49.0)

 

Gender

  

<0.05

 Male

394 (61.4)

248 (38.6)

 

 Female

408 (54.8)

336 (45.2)

 

Age

  

<0.01

 ≤ 44 years

462 (54.6)

384 (45.4)

 

 45–59 years

223 (59.0)

155 (41.0)

 

 ≥ 60 years

117 (72.2)

45 (27.8)

 

Education

  

<0.01

 Never attend school

337 (67.4)

163 (32.6)

 

 Primary school

241 (55.9)

190 (44.1)

 

 Junior high school and above

224 (49.2)

231 (50.8)

 

Incomeb (annual household income)

 

0.76

 ≤ 31400RMB

561 (57.6)

413 (42.4)

 

 > 31400RMB

241 (58.5)

171 (41.5)

 

Marital status

  

0.25

 Singled

194 (60.6)

126 (39.4)

 

 Married

608 (57.0)

458 (43.0)

 

Depression

  

<0.01

 Yes

426 (78.2)

119 (21.8)

 

 No

376 (44.7)

465 (55.3)

 

Smoking

  

<0.01

 Current smoker

177 (64.6)

97 (35.4)

 

 Ex-smoker

100 (64.1)

56 (35.9)

 

 No smoker

525 (54.9)

431 (45.1)

 

Drinking (times per week)

 

<0.01

 ≥ 3

199 (70.1)

85 (29.9)

 

 1–2

145 (58.2)

104 (41.8)

 

 0

458 (53.7)

395 (46.3)

 

Exercise (times per week)

  

0.10

 ≥ 3

190 (53.4)

166 (46.6)

 

 1–2

239 (58.0)

173 (42.0)

 

 0

373 (60.4)

245 (39.6)

 
  1. Poor health: people with low self-rated health (neutral, poor or very poor)
  2. Good health: people with high self-rated health (very good, good)
  3. a P-value by chi-square test. Significance level is 0.05
  4. bAverage annual household income was 31400 RMB among the participants