The Impact of Unemployment on Mental and Physical Health, Access to Health Care and Health Risk Behaviors

Table 2

Multiple logistic regression: crude and adjusted odds ratios: Nevada 2009 BRFSS.

Variables	Unemployed < one year		Unemployed > one year		Out of labor force
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
No Access to Health Care
Crude	8.1*	4.77–13.76	9.34*	5.09–17.17	0.87	0.56–1.34
Adjusted	4.05*	2.32–7.05	4.73*	2.27–9.83	0.9	0.52–1.56
Delaying Health Care due to Cost
Crude	3.71*	2.14–6.44	4.88*	2.57–9.26	0.86	0.55–1.34
Adjusted	2.1*	1.11–3.98	2.42*	1.14–5.15	0.84	0.50–1.56
Smoker
Crude	2.44*	1.24–4.82	3.04*	1.42–6.52	0.57*	0.40–0.80
Adjusted	1.83	0.82–4.05	1.78	0.75–4.26	0.6*	0.38–0.93
Binge Drinker
Crude	1.32	0.62–2.8	0.64	0.26–1.60	0.44*	0.29–0.67
Adjusted	1.47	0.66–3.28	0.49	0.16–1.40	0.73	0.46–1.19
Physically Inactive
Crude	1.18	0.67–2.06	1.15	0.59–2.22	1.2	0.91–1.57
Adjusted	0.77	0.35–1.71	0.83	0.39–1.74	0.83	0.61–1.13
Poor/Fair General Health
Crude	2.15*	1.04–4.42	2.82*	1.33–5.96	2.25*	1.62–3.14
Adjusted	1.13	0.51–2.53	1.71	0.70–4.15	1.4	1.0–2.06

*Significant (𝑃<0.05), Reference group: Employed.