Abstract
Despite the overall improvement in access to medical care tor low-income people, differences in access to care by income levels remain for children. One reason may be the types of places low-income children often go for care. This paper examines the importance of type of usual source of care-physician’s office versus hospital outpatient/emergency room sites and the potential mitigating influence of a specific physician as caregiver at these sites-on physician access and expenditures. Likelihood of a visit, number of visits, distribution of visits for preventive and illness-related care, and likelihood of a preventive visit are examined for all children and for those under 6 years. Implications of different types of usual source of care for costs of physician care are discussed as well.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 386-398 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Medical Care |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| State | Published - 1987 |
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Keywords
- Access to physicians
- Children care of
- Expenditures
- Source of care usual
- Utilization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Nursing(all)
- Health(social science)
- Health Professions(all)
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The importance of type of usual source of care for children’s physician access and expenditures. / Kasper, Judith D.
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