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

Table 4

Ordinal logistic regression model for association between SRH, work in coal mining, and covariates (males only).

Covariate	OR	95% Wald confidence limits		value
Age	0.99	0.97	1.01	0.23
BMI	0.90	0.85	0.95	<0.01
Smoking status				0.01
Not at all	1.00
Some days	0.80	0.19	3.39
Every day	0.27	0.11	0.65
Income level				0.27
Under $25,000	1.00
$25,000 up to $49,999	0.79	0.31	1.99
$50,000 up to $74,999	1.84	0.73	4.61
$75,000 or more	1.46	0.61	3.50
Education level				0.03
High school or less	1.00
Some college/associates	2.23	1.00	4.95
Bachelors or more	2.73	1.18	6.30
Employed in coal-related occupation				0.98
No	1.00
Yes	0.99	0.52	1.88

Statistically significant at .
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