Child Health in the Peruvian Amazon: Prevalence and Factors Associated with Referred Morbidity and Health Care Access in the City of Iñapari

Table 8

Factors associated with hospitalization.

Variables ()	Hospitalization
		Yes (%)	No (%)	value
Sex
Male	58	24.1	75.9
Female	50	8.0	92.0
Age
<2 y.o	51	5.9	94.1
≥2 y.o	57	26.3	73.7
Years of maternal schooling
None	2	100.0	0.0
1 to 4 years	6	16.7	83.3
5 to 8 years	25	20.0	80.0
8 years	72	13.9	86.1
Morbidities during pregnancy
No	44	27.3	72.7
Yes	61	9.8	90.2
Routine health care appointment with medical doctor or nurse in 2010
No	45	26.7	73.3
Yes	63	9.5	90.5
Child health care appointments
No	13	38.5	61.5
Yes, once in a while	26	7.7	92.3
Yes, frequently	28	3.6	96.4
Only when sick	41	24.4	75.6

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Chi-square test.
Fisher exact test.