Impact of Coal Mining on Self-Rated Health among Appalachian Residents

Table 3

Ordinal logistic regression model for association between SRH, number of nearby coal facilities, and covariates.

Covariate	OR	95% Wald confidence limits		value
Age	0.98	0.97	0.99	<0.01
BMI	0.91	0.88	0.94	<0.01
Sex				0.20
Female	1.00
Male	1.29	0.87	1.92
Smoking status				<0.01
Not at all	1.00
Some days	0.96	0.45	2.03
Every day	0.37	0.21	0.64
Income level				<0.01
Under $25,000	1.00
$25,000 up to $49,999	1.23	0.70	2.14
$50,000 up to $74,999	2.73	1.52	4.90
$75,000 or more	2.19	1.26	3.81
Education level				<0.01
High school or less	1.00
Some college/associates	1.11	0.69	1.78
Bachelors or more	2.52	1.51	4.21
Number of coal facilities nearby				0.31
0	1.00
1 or 2	0.91	0.53	1.55
3 or 4	0.74	0.43	1.28
5 or 6	0.60	0.34	1.06

Statistically significant at .