Impact of County-level health infrastructure on participation in a reform effort to reduce the use of jail for individuals with mental health disorders

Table 3 Logistic regression fitted--more parsimonious list of variables predicting Stepping Up participation

	Estimate	OR	95% CI of OR	Std. Error	Pr(>\|z\|)
(Intercept)	-2.05	0.13	.11-.15	0.5498	<0.001^a
Mental health provider rate	0.18	1.20	1.07-1.35	39.5819	0.0021^a
Jail population per capita	-0.79	0.45	.29-.71	24.2956	<0.001^a
Average number of physically unhealthy days	-0.18	0.83	.72-.95	0.0973	0.0079^a
Primary care physician rate	0.06	1.06	.95- 1.20	0.0017	0.2926
Health care costs	-0.47	0.63	.54-.72	0.0001	<0.001^a
Percent of drug treatment paid by Medicaid	0.21	1.23	1.10-1.38	0.0043	0.0003^a
Police per capita	-0.50	0.61	.48-.76	0.0845	<0.001^a
County size Medium vs Small^b	1.50	4.50	3.16-6.41	0.1807	<0.001^a
County size Large vs Small^b	2.64	14.06	7.78-25.41	0.3018	<0.001^a

^a_{Represents significance at the 0.01 level in a two-tailed test}
^b_{County size small is the comparison category for the county size variable and no medical school is the comparison category for the medical school indicator}

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