Ethnic Variations in Healthcare Service Utilization and Access in Vietnamese Mountainous Setting

Table 3

Characteristics of use and access to health services.

	Kinh		Tay		Others		Total
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Health service utilization in the last 12 months (n = 321)	30	71.4	149	64.8	25	51.0	204	63.6	0.100
Inpatient service use in the last 12 months (n = 321)
None	28	66.7	175	76.1	38	77.6	241	75.1	0.736
One time	8	19.1	32	13.9	7	14.3	47	14.6
Two times or more	6	14.3	23	10.0	4	8.2	33	10.3
Outpatient service use in the last 12 months (n = 321)
None	21	50.0	114	49.6	32	65.3	167	52.0	0.183
Once	2	4.8	22	9.6	5	10.2	29	9.0
Twice or more	19	45.2	94	40.8	12	24.5	125	38.9
Health facilities visited in the last 12 months (n = 321)
Province hospital	19	54.3	123	63.4	24	66.7	166	62.6	0.511
Commune health center	20	57.1	105	54.1	16	44.4	141	53.2	0.498
Others	5	11.9	28	12.2	3	6.1	36	11.2	0.470
The first health facility visited when having illness (n = 321)
Commune health center	33	78.6	166	72.2	35	71.4	234	72.9	0.671
Others	9	21.4	64	27.8	14	28.6	87	27.1
Reasons for the selection (n = 321)
Convenient (near home)	26	61.9	146	63.5	34	69.4	206	64.2	0.697
Health insurance registration	27	64.3	156	67.8	28	57.1	211	65.7	0.351
High-quality service	6	14.3	72	31.3	3	6.1	81	25.2	<0.001
Others	7	16.7	64	27.8	2	4.1	73	22.7	0.001
Difficulty when going to the commune health center (n = 321)	8	20.0	30	14.2	7	14.6	45	15.0	0.634
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Number of health service utilization
Inpatient (n = 80)	1.7	1.1	2.3	3.3	1.7	1.2	2.2	2.8	0.969
Outpatient (n = 156)	4.4	3.3	5.3	4.9	2.2	1.4	4.8	4.6	0.008
Distance from home to the commune health center (km)	3.1	5.3	3.4	14.9	4.8	3.2	3.6	12.8	<0.001

Chi-squared test. Kruskal–Wallis test.