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Vol.2, No.6, 541-550 (2010) Health doi:10.4236/health.2010.26081 Determinants of self-rated private health insurance coverage in Jamaica 1 2 Paul A. Bourne *, Maureen D. Kerr-Campbell 1Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica; * Corresponding Author: paulbourne1@ 2Systems Development Unit, Main Library, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Received 18 November 2009; revised 5 January 2010; accepted 8 January 2010. ABSTRACT emerged as statistically significant determinants of health insurance coverage in this sample. The purpose of the current study was to model These variables are social standing (two weal- the health insurance coverage of Jamaicans; thiest quintile: OR = 1.68, 95% CI = 1.23 – 2.30), and to identify the determinants, strength and income (OR = 1.00, 95%CI = 1.00 – 1.00), durable predictive power of the model in order to aid clinicians and other health practitioners in un- goods (OR = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.12 – 1.19), marital derstanding those who have health insurance status (married: OR = 1.97, 95% CI = 1.61 – 2.42), coverage. This study utilized secondary data area of residence (Peri-urban: OR = 1.45, 95% CI taken from the dataset of the Jamaica Survey of = 1.199 – 1.75; urban: OR = 1.83, 95% CI = 1.40 – Livin