The Korean Journal of Health Service Management (보건의료산업학회지)

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An Association between Private Health Insurance and Use of Endoscopy, Sonography, CT, MRI, and PET

내시경, 초음파, CT, MRI, PET 검사와 민간의료보험의 관련성 연구

  • You, Chang-Hoon (School of business administration, the Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Kwon, Young-Dae (Department of Humanities and Social Medicine, College of Medicine and Catholic Institute for Healthcare Management, the Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Choi, Ji-Heon (International Institute of Health) ;
  • Kang, Sung-Wook (Department of Public Health, Daegu Haany University)
  • 유창훈 (가톨릭대학교 대학원 경영학과) ;
  • 권영대 (가톨릭대학교 의과대학 인문사회의학과) ;
  • 최지헌 (지구촌보건의료연구소) ;
  • 강성욱 (대구한의대학교 보건학부)
  • Received : 2014.08.10
  • Accepted : 2014.12.03
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

This paper examined the effects of private health insurance (PHI) on the use of endoscopy, sonography, CT, MRI, and PET among Koreans. The data used was the four waves of the Korea Health Panel (2008-2011), and the number of subjects was 141,862 visits. We employed a pooled logistic regression mode which was corrected with cluster errors. The results showed that PHI was positively related to the use of endoscopy, but not related to the use of sonography, CT, MRI, and PET. It is, however, recommended that health policy makers pay attention to the effects of PHI on the use of sonography, CT, MRI, and PET.

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