Wilkins K, Park E
Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.
Health Rep. 1998 Summer;10(1):29-37(ENG); 31-40(FRE).
This article describes the social, socioeconomic and other health-related characteristics of people receiving formal, publicly funded home care services.
The data are from the household component of the 1994/95 National Population Health Survey. The analysis covers 16,291 respondents aged 18 or older.
Recipients of publicly funded home care services were profiled using weighted univariate frequencies and multivariate logistic regression.
Recipients of publicly funded home care services in 1994/95 numbered over half a million. People who were elderly, female, had two or more chronic conditions or were living with others accounted for large proportions of these recipients. Characteristics significantly associated with receiving home care included old age, poor or fair general health, abstinence from alcohol (compared with regular use), low income, living alone, needing help with some activity of daily living, and having cancer or the effects of a stroke.
本文描述了接受正规公共资助居家护理服务人群的社会、社会经济及其他与健康相关的特征。
数据取自1994/95年全国人口健康调查的家庭部分。分析涵盖了16291名18岁及以上的受访者。
使用加权单变量频率和多变量逻辑回归对接受公共资助居家护理服务的人群进行了剖析。
1994/95年接受公共资助居家护理服务的人数超过50万。老年人、女性、患有两种或更多慢性疾病或与他人同住的人在这些接受者中占很大比例。与接受居家护理显著相关的特征包括高龄、一般健康状况较差或一般、戒酒（与经常饮酒相比）、低收入、独居、在某些日常生活活动中需要帮助以及患有癌症或中风后遗症。
