Determinants of pediatric care utilization

J Hum Resour. 1978:13 Suppl:115-58.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to understand the determinants of utilization of pediatric care--care rendered to children by all physicians. Multivariate techniques are employed to examine four measures of pediatric care utilization in a national sample of children between the ages of 1 and 5. These measures are the probability of contacting a physician within the past year, the probability of obtaining a preventive physical examination within the past year, the number of office visits to physicians in private practice by children with positive visits, and the average quality of these visits.

MeSH terms

  • Child Health Services / economics
  • Child Health Services / statistics & numerical data*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Costs and Cost Analysis
  • Educational Status
  • Ethnicity
  • Humans
  • Income
  • Infant
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Parents
  • Physicians / supply & distribution
  • Preventive Health Services / statistics & numerical data
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Time Factors
  • United States