Table 4 The doubly robust estimation of physician visits
Covariates of the doubly robust estimation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Dependent variables | Physician visits among hypertensive patients | Poor self-assessed health (PSAH) | |
Physician visits among hypertensive patients (ATET) |  |  | −0.0358*** (0.0128) |
Physician visits during the past three consecutive years | 0.550*** (0.112) | Â | Â |
Age | 0.0188* (0.0108) | −0.00266 (0.00335) | −0.000533*** (0.000196) |
Gender (male = 1) | −0.146 (0.113) | 0.00859 (0.0320) | 0.00309 (0.00206) |
Never married | −0.226 (0.178) | −0.0808** (0.0316) | 0.00142 (0.00357) |
Divorced or widowed |  | 0.871*** (0.0673) | −0.0963*** (0.0250) |
Living together with family members excluding spouse | 0.0806 (0.0991) | −0.0186 (0.0276) | −0.00299* (0.00171) |
Drinking habit (lagged) | −0.00007 (0.117) | −0.0170 (0.0310) | 0.00205 (0.00207) |
No habitual exercise (lagged) | −0.200** (0.101) | 0.0236 (0.0291) | 0.0240*** (0.00195) |
Smoking habit (lagged) | −0.192 (0.124) | 0.0133 (0.0340) | 0.00164 (0.00247) |
Junior high school | −0.0488 (0.135) | 0.0104 (0.0416) | 0.0204*** (0.00268) |
Vocational school or junior college | −0.245* (0.141) | −0.0337 (0.0343) | −0.00105 (0.00247) |
University or graduate school | −0.000704 (0.141) | 0.0121 (0.0635) | −0.00610 (0.00470) |
Gender × University or graduate school |  | −0.131* (0.0747) | −0.0140*** (0.00522) |
Diabetes | Â | 0.0184 (0.0378) | 0.0494*** (0.00289) |
Stroke | Â | 0.200* (0.113) | 0.105*** (0.00749) |
Heart diseases | Â | 0.146* (0.0792) | 0.0859*** (0.00539) |
Cancer | Â | 0.235** (0.114) | 0.136*** (0.00819) |
Diabetes × Heart diseases |  | 0.298* (0.153) | 0.0126 (0.0110) |
Felt worse symptoms of high blood pressure than its onset during the past year | Â | 0.0679(0.131) | 0.228*** (0.0188) |
Constant term | 3.594*** (0.704) | 0.242 (0.220) | 0.0493*** (0.0130) |
N | 66,064 | 66,064 | Â |
Sample |  | PSAH = 0 | PSAH = 1 |