The impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer program on children’s health care utilization and health outcomes

Table 3 Outcome variables, by sub-groups

	Children < 7 years	Children 7-17 years
Health care utilization (dichotomous)
Any health post visit – growth monitoring	440 (70.74)	203 (42.29)
Any health post visit – vaccination	540 (88.38)	110 (23.01)
Any checkup	380 (60.90)	219 (45.06)
Any health post visit – sick	138 (22.29)	67 (13.73)
Any urgent care center visit	430 (69.13)	219 (44.97)
Any hospital visit	95 (15.20)	31 (6.35)
Health care utilization (continuous)
Health post visits – growth monitoring	2.39 (3.08)	0.97 (1.72)
Health post visits – vaccination	2.20 (1.81)	0.33 (0.74)
Checkups	1.11 (1.38)	0.67 (1.02)
Health post visits – sick	0.50 (1.15)	0.25 (0.82)
Urgent care center visits	1.80 (2.26)	0.88 (1.36)
Hospital visits	0.25 (0.84)	0.11 (0.62)
Illness
Diarrhea in last 3 months	223 (30.84)	81 (15.67)
Diarrhea in last 2 weeks	88 (12.17)	26 (5.03)
Fever in last 2 weeks	234 (32.37)	87 (16.83)
Cough in last 2 weeks	418 (57.81)	188 (36.36)
Health status summary scores*
Physical health summary score	43.74 (12.68)	45.02 (10.61)
Psychosocial health summary score	53.72 (7.28)	51.91 (8.53)

Data are mean (SD) or n (%). Age was calculated as of the interview date except in the analysis of health care utilization when age was calculated as of December 31, 2009.
*Health status questions were only applied to children ages 5 and above. Therefore, the youngest subgroup of children for these outcomes only contains children between the ages of 5-7 years.