Accessibility to health care facilities in Montreal Island: an application of relative accessibility indicators from the perspective of senior and non-senior residents

Paez, Antonio; Mercado, Ruben G; Farber, Steven; Morency, Catherine; Roorda, Matthew

doi:10.1186/1476-072X-9-52

International Journal of Health Geographics

Table 1 Regression model results.

From: Accessibility to health care facilities in Montreal Island: an application of relative accessibility indicators from the perspective of senior and non-senior residents

VARIABLE	Estimate	p-value	VARIABLE	Estimate	p-value
CONSTANT	-2.1166	0.0000	Urban form
Age			POPULATION DENSITY	-0.0218	0.0000
AGE < 20	-0.4165	0.0000	Spatial expansion
AGE 20-35	0.0520	0.0000	DISTANCE TO CBD^b	4.3285	0.0000
AGE 36-50	Reference		*Age 65+	-0.5318	0.0334
AGE 51-64	-0.0217	0.0144	*Single Parent	-1.3899	0.0024
AGE 65+	0.6027	0.0529	*Low Income	-0.2927	0.1597
Income			X²	-4.1085	0.0000
INC. REFUSE/DON'T KNOW	-0.1730	0.0000	*Age 65+	0.6009	0.1901
INCOME < 20 K	-0.9787	0.0080	*Single Parent	2.1477	0.0336
INCOME 20-40 K	-0.2513	0.0000	*Low Income	-2.7450	0.0000
INCOME 40-60 K	-0.1889	0.0000	X	5.6710	0.0000
INCOME 60-80 K	-0.1072	0.0000	*Age 65+	-1.0814	0.1337
INCOME 80-100 K	-0.0571	0.0001	*Single Parent	-3.7316	0.0105
INCOME > 100 K	Reference		*Low Income	3.3953	0.0003
Household structure			X*Y	-0.4131	0.0009
SINGLE	Reference		*Age 65+	0.1262	0.3903
COUPLE	0.0105	0.1809	*Single Parent	1.5921	0.0119
COUPLE W/CHILDREN	-0.1236	0.0000	*Low Income	-0.4074	0.1887
SINGLE PARENT	0.3073	0.3242	Y	4.8965	0.0000
OTHER	0.0429	0.0002	*Age 65+	-1.2045	0.0298
Mobility tools			*Single Parent	-0.8996	0.2096
DRIVER LICENSE	0.3061	0.0000	*Low Income	0.0420	0.4768
VEHICLE OWN	0.1699	0.0000	Y²	-5.4665	0.0000
*Age 65+	-0.0036	0.4556	*Age 65+	1.2649	0.0285
*Single Parent	-0.0410	0.2030	*Single Parent	1.7897	0.0611
*Low Income	0.0159	0.2766	*Low Income	-0.3942	0.2974
TRANSIT^a	-0.0826	0.0001
*Age 65+	-0.1679	0.0043	R²	0.199
*Single Parent	-0.1284	0.1488	R²_adj	0.198
*Low Income	0.0925	0.0329	s ²	1.208
Occupation			S	1.099
FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT	0.5701	0.0000	N	122420
*Age 65+	-0.0953	0.0262
*Single Parent	0.0073	0.4278
*Low Income	-0.0602	0.0106
PART TIME EMPLOYMENT	0.1674	0.0000
*Age 65+	0.0605	0.1878
*Single Parent	0.0701	0.2369
*Low Income	0.1443	0.0006
STUDENT	0.5323	0.0000
FREE PARKING @ WORK	0.2271	0.0000

Independent variable is log of average trip length
Notes:
^aMajor transit station within 500 m
^bCentral Business District

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ISSN: 1476-072X

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