From: Self-rated health and its determinants among adults in Syria: a model from the Middle East
Male | Female | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Self Rated Health (SRH) | Self Rated Health (SRH) | |||||
Excellent n (%) 590 (52.4) | Normal n (%) 274 (37.8) | Poor n (%) 57 (30.6) | Excellent n (%) 537 (47.6) | Normal n (%) 451 (62.2) | Poor n (%) 129 (69.4) | |
Neighborhood | ||||||
Formal | 279 (47.3) | 151 (55.1) | 21 (36.8) | 270 (50.3) | 239 (53) | 57 (44.2) |
Informal | 311 (52.7) | 123 (44.9) | 36 (63.2) | 267 (49.7) | 212 (47) | 72 (55.8) |
Age | ||||||
18–29 years | 228 (38.6) | 62 (22.6) | 15 (26.3) | 257 947.9) | 147 (32.6) | 27 (20.9) |
30–45 years | 258 (43.7) | 120 (43.8) | 20 (35.1) | 224 (41.7) | 200 (44.3) | 52 (40.3) |
46–65 years | 104 (17.6) | 92 (33.6) | 22 (38.6) | 56 (10.4) | 104 (23.1) | 50 (38.8) |
Marital status | ||||||
Married | 436 (73.9) | 228 (83.2) | 46 (80.7) | 363 (67.6) | 358 (79.4) | 113 (87.6) |
Single/Divorced/Widowed | 154 (26.1) | 46 (16.8) | 11 (19.3) | 174 (32.4) | 93 (20.6) | 16 (12.4) |
Education | ||||||
Illiterate | 80 (13.6) | 32 (11.7) | 16 (28.1) | 115 (21.4) | 120 (26.6) | 62 (48.1) |
Years of education < 9 | 345 (58.5) | 171 (62.4) | 30 (52.6) | 287 (53.4) | 243 (53.9) | 55 (42.6) |
Years of education > 9 | 165 (28) | 71 (25.9) | 11 (19.31) | 135 (25.1) | 88 (19.5) | 12 (9.3) |
Employment categorized | ||||||
Unemployed | 65 (11) | 22 (8) | 8 (14) | 459 (85.5) | 387 (85.8) | 118 (91.5) |
Employed/retired | 268 (45.4) | 132 (48.2) | 29 (50.9) | 59 (11) | 48 (10.6) | 6 (4.7) |
Employer/private business | 257 (43.6) | 120 (43.8) | 20 (35.1) | 19 (3.5) | 16 (3.5) | 5 (3.9) |
Density index (DI) categorized | ||||||
>2.3 | 128 (21.7) | 58 (21.2) | 23 (40.4) | 116 (21.6) | 101 (22.4) | 39 (30.2) |
1.5 – 2.3 | 175 (29.7) | 89 (32.5) | 13 (22.8) | 155 (28.9) | 135 (29.9) | 33 (25.6) |
<1.5 | 287 (48.6) | 127 (46.4) | 21 (36.8) | 266 (49.5) | 215 (47.7) | 57 (44.2) |
SES score categorized | ||||||
Low (score 0–3) | 111 (18.8) | 51 (18.6) | 18 (31.6) | 272 (50.7) | 237 (52.5) | 102 (79.1) |
Middle (score 4–5) | 249 (42.2) 230 (39) | 119 (43.4) 104 (38) | 22 (38.6) 17 (29.8) | 156 (29.1) 109 (20.3) | 145 (32.2) 69 (15.3) | 19 (14.7) 8 (6.2) |
High (score 6–12) | ||||||
Religion | ||||||
Muslim | 564 (95.6) | 263 (96) | 57 (100) | 495 (92.2) | 433 (96) | 126 (97.7) |
Christian and others | 26 (4.4) | 11 (4.1) | 0 | 42 (7.8) | 18 (4) | 3 (2.4) |
Ethnicity | ||||||
Arab | 477 (80.8) | 211 (77) | 42 (73.7) | 427 (79.5) | 365 (80.9) | 103 (79.8) |
Others | 113 (19.2) | 63 (23) | 15 (26.3) | 110 (20.5) | 86 (19) | 26 (20.2) |