Self-Rating Perceived Health: The Influence on Health Care Utilization and Death Risk / 예방의학회지
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine
;
: 355-360, 1999.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-159151
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
This 3-year longitudinal study was conducted to evaluate the influence of self-rating health perception on health care utilization and all cause-death risk.METHODS:
The hypothesis was tested using a community-based samples, among which subjects 3,414 were interviewed in 1995. Self-rating health perception was assessed by single-item question. Three components of health care utilization amount(number of visits, number of medications, yearly health care expenses) per year were measured using medical insurance data during 3-year follow-up period among subjects in district health care insurance. There were 123 deaths from all causes among 3,085 subjects interviewed.RESULTS:
The results showed that those who had poor health perception revealed more increases in the amount of health care utilization than good health perception group (p<0.05). After adjusting for age and sex, the poor health perception group had higher death risk over 3 years than good health perception group(hazard ratio=1.88). but, after adjusting health care utility, supplementary, was not significant.CONCLUSION:
These results suggest that self-rating health percep-tion was associated with difference in health care utilization and all cause-death risk.
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Index:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Follow-Up Studies
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Longitudinal Studies
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Delivery of Health Care
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Insurance
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine
Year:
1999
Type:
Article
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