Explaining Dental Utilization Behavior

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Rand Corporation, 1987 - Behavior - 141 pages
This report examines the factors other than dental health insurance that explain people's use of dental health services. The analyses were designed to address three questions: (1) What explains the substantial percentage of people with dental health insurance who do not use any dental care during a year? (2) What underlying (and often unmeasured) differences in need, attitudes, or continuity manifest themselves as observed sociodemographic group variations in use of dental care? and (3) Do the same or different factors account for care-seeking and for amount of care once an individual enters the system? For both adults and children, two dependent variables were examined--the probability of use and expenditures by users. For adults, preventive and illness-related services were distinguished for each of these variables. Data from the study are appended and references are included. (JD)

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EXPLAINING DENTAL UTILIZATION BEHAVIOR
48
METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSES
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