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Table 4 Interaction between ownership of supplementary health insurance and ethnicity, and their effect on the possibility of having any out-of-pocket expenditure for dental care (2014 survey)

From: Factors associated with disparities in out-of-pocket expenditure on dental care: results from two cross-sectional national surveys

 

Ownership of a supplementary health insurance

OR (95% CI) for with supplementary insurance (vs without) stratified by ethnicity

Ethnicity

No (N = 1305)

Yes (N = 6978)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

Jewish (N = 6853)

1.0 Reference category

1.10 (0.87–1.41)

 

Arab (N = 1103)

2.40 (1.62–3.58)

1.34 (0.94–1.89)

0.56 (0.39–0.80)

OR (95% CI) for Arab(vsJewish)stratified by ownership of supplementary insurance

 

1.21 (0.88–1.67)

 
  1. OR odds-ratio, CI confidence interval
  2. Notes: Weighted model, adjusted for sex, marital status, religiosity level, years of education, income deciles, peripherality index, ownership of an apartment, ownership of a car, and the age composition of the household; Supplementary insurance includes supplemental insurance of the health plans, private commercial health insurance, private dental insurance, long-term care insurance and other private health insurance; Values are presented after Bonferroni correction for multiple-comparisons
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Israel Journal of Health Policy Research

ISSN: 2045-4015