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It seems to be rather plausible, though, to assume that income has a causal effect on avoiding or delaying physician contacts due to the practice charge.
It is also important to stress that the dummy variable 'no information on income' is not significantly related to avoiding or delaying physician contacts (OR = 1.24).
It can be assumed, however, that avoiding or delaying physician visits jeopardizes both, and that health inequalities are increasing due to the practice charge.
However, it is difficult to fully explain the observed time trend and especially the sharp decline between spring and autumn 2006, because avoiding or delaying physician visits is a very complex issue with many influencing factors.
As illustrated by Figure 4, a very similar picture can be seen when the percentages avoiding or delaying physician visits is displayed by the difficulty to pay co-payments: The participants who say that it is difficult to spare the money for the co-payments show a much higher percentage than those who say that paying the co-payments is easy.
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Examples of such lapses included inadequate physical exams, delayed physician involvement and incomplete diagnostic and laboratory tests.
Apparently, people with a lower socio-economic status are more affected and clearly tend to avoid or delay physician visits because of the fee.
For instance, the probability of people with less than €6000 to avoid or delay physician contacts changes from 2.31 (model 1) to 2.32 (CI: 1.99 2.71).
In contrast, CR programs perceived that the most common reasons for delays in access were patient unavailability for personal reasons, capacity and funding limitations, as well as delayed physician referral.
People under 30 years of age are more than three times (OR = 3.46, CI 2.72 4.39, β = 1.24, se = 0.12) more likely to avoid or delay physician visits because of the practice charge than people older than 70 years (model 1).
Those who assess their health status as being 'very good' avoid or delay physician contacts twice as often as those who say that their health is poor (OR univariate including all waves = 2.0, CI 1.74 2.27, β = 0.69, se = 0.07).
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