Socioeconomic Factors

Wealth was the strongest protective factor against reporting healthcare access barriers. Maternal education was positively associated with CCI. The fourth and richest wealth quintiles were positively associated with CCI at every quantile. Women in the richest wealth quintile had 79% lower odds of healthcare access barriers than women in the poorest quintile. Household wealth had a strong protective association with healthcare access barriers. The third wealth quintile was positively associated with CCI at several quantiles. Higher education was strongly protective against reported healthcare access barriers. Recent work was also associated with slightly higher human health and animal-environment knowledge scores. Women aged 45-49 had roughly half the odds of reporting barriers compared with adolescents aged 15-19. Higher social deprivation was independently associated with higher hospitalisation incidence for VDB. The strongest deprivation association was observed for the most deprived quintile compared with the least deprived quintile. The study found educational attainment and wealth were not associated with unplanned ACSC admissions in this older population. Women who were not…