Costs of health services utilisation in the first year of life attributable to ETS exposure during pregnancy for the 1997 annual birth cohort
| Adjusted OR* | PAR (%) | Relative contribution to the cost (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude OR | Point estimate | 95% CI | Point estimate | 95% CI | Extra number of episodes attributable to ETS | Total extra cost (US$1000) | Private sector | Public sector | |
| OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; PAR, population attributable risk. | |||||||||
| N/A denotes items not calculated because the associated PARs did not achieve statistical significance at the 0.05 level. | |||||||||
| *Odds ratios are adjusted for maternal education level, maternal full time employment, maternal age, birth order, method of delivery, birth weight, and breast feeding. | |||||||||
| Consultation | |||||||||
| Respiratory/fever | 1.20 | 1.19 | (1.08 to 1.31) | 6.0 | (2.6 to 9.4) | 10274 | 273 | 89.2 | 10.8 |
| Any illness | 1.28 | 1.26 | (1.14 to 1.39) | 7.7 | (4.3 to 10.9) | 16192 | 437 | 87.3 | 12.7 |
| Hospitalisation | |||||||||
| Respiratory/fever | 1.14 | 1.11 | (0.98 to 1.27) | 5.7 | (−1.3 to 12.2) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Any illness | 1.20 | 1.18 | (1.05 to 1.31) | 7.4 | (2.3 to 12.2) | 1581 | 2142 | 18.3 | 81.7 |