Determinants of Pediatric Care Utilization

Ann D. Colle and Michael Grossman

No 240, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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.

Date: 1979-04
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Published as Determinants of Pediatric Care Utilization , Ann D. Colle and Michael Grossman. in The Economics of Physician and Patient Behavior , Fuchs and Newhouse. 1978
Published as Ann D. Colle & Michael Grossman, 1978. "Determinants of Pediatric Care Utilization," The Journal of Human Resources, vol 13.

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