Explaining Dental Utilization BehaviorThis 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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Section | 1 |
EXPLAINING DENTAL UTILIZATION BEHAVIOR | 48 |
METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSES | 69 |
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AFDC assessed oral health Attitude Toward Going Availability/Convenience Bailit beliefs and attitudes BEST REPRESENT EXPLANATORY bivariate analyses Bleeding gums category predicting utilization children's utilization clinically assessed oral Coinsurance 95 confirmatory sample continuity of dental correlations cross-validated Current Health dental care services dental satisfaction dental services dental visits dependent variable DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Doctor's Mistakes Efficacy of Doctor's Efficacy of Self-Care estimated expenditures by users Explaining Probability explanatory factors explanatory variables exploratory sample Family income Franklin County Georgetown County health perceptions health-related beliefs higher score indicates hypotheses illness-related services indicates more favorable Missing income multivariate analyses Newhouse nonuse oral health measures oral health status Oral Hygiene Index p-value Pain Management Parent's Health-Related Periodontal Index regression relationship REPRESENT EXPLANATORY CATEGORIES Resistance to Illness retained variables satisfaction with dental score indicates greater Sign t Sign significant significantly related sociodemographic characteristics Statistics Table tion Variables that Best Ware