Citizens’ initiatives for care and welfare in the Netherlands: an ecological analysis

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Summary table of hypothesised relationships and results of the analyses

Results	All areas	Urban	Semi-urban and intermediate	Semi-rural and rural
Mechanism and variable	All areas	Urban	Semi-urban and intermediate	Semi-rural and rural
Care vacuum
Percentage of 75+	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Current distance GP	Ns	–	Ns	Ns
Current distance pharmacy	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Current distance hospital	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Current distance grocery store	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Current distance elementary school	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Current distance high school	+	Ns	Ns	+
Current distance library	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Distance to GP increased	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Distance to pharmacy increased	Ns	+	Ns	Ns
Distance to hospital increased	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Distance to grocery store increased	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Distance to elementary school increased	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Distance to high school increased	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Distance to library increased	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Percentage of migrants	Ns	+	Ns	Ns
Capacity for action
Social capital	Ns	Ns	Ns	+
Percentage 65–75	Ns	+	Ns	Ns
Residential turnover	Ns	Ns	Ns	Ns
Percentage high education	Ns	+	+	Ns
Percentage Catholic	+	Ns	+	+
Model of action
Distance to other initiatives	+	Ns	Ns	Ns
Interactions^a
Distance to nearest high school and percentage Catholic	+	Ns	Ns	Ns

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