Table 4 Construction of the Multidimensional Health Index (MHI)
From: Multidimensional analysis of health in Mexico: implementation of fuzzy sets
Average MHI | 95% confidence interval of the difference | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Inferior | Superior | ||
Sex | |||
Man | 20.3365 | (19.9594 | 20.7136) |
Woman | 23.8980 | (23.4945 | 24.3015) |
Level of Education | |||
No education | 29.0121 | (26.9548 | 31.0693) |
Basic level | 25.9039 | (25.2304 | 26.5774) |
Middle education | 22.2467 | (21.7709 | 22.7224) |
Higher secondary education | 20.2803 | (19.7627 | 20.7980) |
Higher education | 18.9692 | (18.4015 | 19.5369) |
Postgraduate | 19.8958 | (17.7479 | 22.0438) |
Access to Medical Service | |||
With Access | 20.4114 | (19.8960 | 20.9268) |
No Access | 22.0444 | (21.6203 | 22.4686) |
Access to private health insurance | |||
With Access | 20.5188 | (19.1652 | 21.8725) |
No Access | 21.5909 | (21.2439 | 21.9379) |
Population Type | |||
Urban | 22.5224 | (22.1707 | 22.8741) |
Rural | 22.0987 | (21.6208 | 22.5766) |
Regions | |||
North | 23.1174 | (22.4768 | 23.7580) |
Central | 21.4628 | (21.0244 | 21.9012) |
Mexico City | 22.5513 | (20.9278 | 24.1747) |
South | 22.8346 | (22.3660 | 23.3032) |
Consumes alcoholic beverages | |||
Yes | 23.6620 | (23.0863 | 24.2377) |
No | 20.7997 | (20.3955 | 21.2039) |
Smoking | |||
Every day | 22.6178 | (21.5263 | 23.7093) |
Some days | 22.6687 | (22.3517 | 22.9856) |
Does not smoke | 19.9181 | (19.1780 | 20.6583) |
Age | |||
20_30 | 17.1278 | (16.8092 | 17.4464) |
31_40 | 19.9937 | (19.5450 | 20.4424) |
41_50 | 24.2371 | (23.6404 | 24.8338) |
Greater than 50 | 31.3044 | (30.4337 | 32.1751) |