Patient cost-sharing, socioeconomic status, and children's health care utilization

Beyond health care--socioeconomic status and health.

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Socioeconomic inequity in health care utilization, Iran.

UNLABELLED Reducing poor-rich inequities in health is one of the priorities of both national and international organizations and is also one of the main challenges of health sectors in Iran. Since, in the view of policy making, quantifying the size of inequity in health care utilization (HCU) is a prerequisite for achieving this goal, the current study aimed to determine and compare the socioec...

Health care utilization among older Mexicans: health and socioeconomic inequalities.

OBJECTIVE To examine the determinants of the utilization of health care services among the population of older adults in Mexico. Three types of health care services are analyzed: preventive care, visits to the doctor, and hospitalizations. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data was used from the 2001 Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS/ENASEM) and estimates were made using multivariate probit regression ...

Choosing wisely: low-value services, utilization, and patient cost sharing.

THE JUNE 2012 ISSUE OF CONSUMER REPORTS includes a cover story entitled “5 Medical Tests You Don’t Need.” The story reflects a joint Choosing Wisely initiative by Consumer Reports and the American Board of Internal Medicine aimed at “encouraging physicians, patients and other health care stakeholders to think and talk about medical tests and procedures that may be unnecessary, and in some insta...

DataWatch: Health Status And Medical Care Utilization