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Table 11 Test results on relationship between “Average Cost” and “Insurance Levels”: Reported coefficients are estimated using the data of contingency table INSLEVEL (see “Appendix 3'')

From: Be rich or don’t be sick: estimating Vietnamese patients’ risk of falling into destitution

Modelling categories of financial burden following Average Cost and Insurance Level

β0

AvgCost

Insurance level

HiCost

MedCost

Med

Low

Nil

β1

β2

β3

β4

β5

Logit (C|A)

−0.9515*

(−2.505)

2.631***

(5.255)

1.2503***

(3.397)

−0.1669

(−0.375)

−0.2665

(−0.549)

1.0133**

(2.933)

Logit (B|A)

−0.9454*

(−2.375)

1.2636*

(2.292)

0.5224

(1.361)

−0.3641

(−0.674)

0.0053

(0.010)

1.0263**

(2.642)

  1. Residual deviance: 13.64 on 12 df; Log-likelihood: −40.81 on 12 df z value in brackets. Baseline category: no financial burden after staying in hospital
  2. ***,**,* Denote coefficients significant at 1, 5 and 10 %, respectively