Table 5 Multinomial logistic regression analyses (adjusted) of the relationship between health inequity attributions and support for housing, welfare and nutrition interventions to address health inequities
From: Addressing health inequities in Ontario, Canada: what solutions do the public support?
Housing interventions | Welfare interventions | Nutrition interventions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Predictor Variable | Targeted onlya OR (CI 95%) | Broader only OR (CI 95%) | Both OR (CI 95%) | Targeted only OR (CI 95%) | Broader only OR (CI 95%) | Both OR (CI 95%) | Targeted only OR (CI 95%) | Broader only OR (CI 95%) | Both OR (CI 95%) |
Blamers (ref: group: those who did not agree with statements blaming the poor) | 0.90 (0.63–1.29) | 0.89 (0.56–1.42) | 0.79 (0.61–1.02) | 1.06 (0.78–1.44) | 0.88 (0.54–1.42) | 0.64 (0.51–0.81)*** | 1.57 (1.01–2.43)* | 2.10 (1.07–4.12)* | 1.40 (0.97–2.01) |
Plight of the poor (ref group: those who did not agree with plight of the poor) | 1.03 (0.72–1.48) | 1.39 (0.87–2.20) | 2.13 (1.64–2.76)*** | 1.09 (0.80–1.48) | 1.67 (1.03–2.71)* | 1.78 (1.41–2.25)*** | 1.42 (0.91–2.21) | 1.56 (0.80–3.03) | 2.04 (1.41–2.95)*** |
Privilege of the rich (ref. group: those who did not agree with privilege of the rich) | 1.25 (0.79–2.00) | 0.60 (0.36–1.02) | 1.36 (0.97–1.89) | 1.14 (0.77–1.67) | 0.75 (0.42–1.31) | 1.74 (1.28–2.35)*** | -- | -- | -- |
Conservatives (ref. group: Non-Conservatives) | 0.88 (0.61–1.28) | 0.73 (0.45–1.21) | 0.59 (0.45–0.77)*** | 1.71 (0.98–2.99) | 1.75 (0.74–4.11) | 0.64 (0.50–0.82)*** | 0.76 (0.49–1.18) | 0.36 (0.16–0.78) ** | 0.52 (0.36–0.75)*** |
NDPs (ref. group: non-NDP) | 1.83 (0.86–3.93) | 1.46 (0.55–3.91) | 3.17 (1.78–5.66)*** | 0.73 (0.52–1.01) | 1.00 (0.60–1.67) | 2.21 (1.41–3.46)*** | -- | -- | -- |
Males (ref. group: Female) | 0.98 (0.69–1.39) | 0.96 (0.62–1.50) | 0.65 (0.51–0.84)*** | -- | -- | -- | 0.41 (0.19–0.89)* | 0.62 (0.21–1.88) | 0.33 (0.16–0.67)** |
Employed (ref. group: unemployed) | 0.34 (0.14–0.84)** | 0.46 (0.15–1.42) | 0.30 (0.14–0.64)** | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Foreign born (ref. group: Canadian-born) | 1.46 (0.98–2.17) | 1.88) (1.16–3.04)** | 1.10 (0.82–1.48) | 0.83 (0.58–1.18) | 1.75 (1.07–2.88)* | 1.08 (0.83–1.40) | -- | -- | -- |
Majority (ref. group: minority) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 0.74 (0.48–1.14) | 1.02 (0.53–1.99) | 0.59 (0.41–0.84)** |