Determinants of Pediatric Care Utilization / Ann D. Colle, Michael Grossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colle, Ann D.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Grossman, Michael.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w0240.

NBER working paper series no. w0240

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1979.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

April 1979.