Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- Volume 23 Issue 2 Serial No. 30
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- Pages.185-193
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- 1990
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- 1975-8375(pISSN)
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- 2233-4521(eISSN)
Change in Medical Care Utilization over Time in Early Years of Insurance Coverage
의료보험 적용인구의 의료이용도와 가입기간의 관계
- Kim, Byoung-Yik (Institute of Health Services and Management Hallym University) ;
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Lee, Young-Jo
(Institute of Health Services and Management Hallym University) ;
- Han, Dal-Sun (Institute of Health Services and Management Hallym University)
- Published : 1990.06.01
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to observe the pattern of change in medical care utilization over time in early years of insurance coverage. The source of data is the benefit records file of a voluntary medical insurance society for covering the four-year period, from 1982 to 1985. The measure of medical care utilization used in this study is the age-sex standardized percentage of the enrollee who have visited a physician over total analytical population during a three-month period. For six cohorts by the year of enrollment (
Keywords
- duration of insurance coverage;
- medical care utilization;
- logistic multiple regression;
- residual analysis