Health-Related Worries, Perceived Health Status, and Health Care Utilization

Do healthy people worry? Modern health worries, subjective health complaints, perceived health, and health care utilization.

BACKGROUND Modern health worries (MHW) are concerns related to modern or technological features of daily life (e.g., air pollution, x-rays, food additives, etc.), and have been associated with subjective health complaints (SHC) and health care use. PURPOSE The MHW scale was expected to predict aspects of health status in healthy individuals (e.g., health care visits, health perceptions, and m...

DataWatch: Health Status And Medical Care Utilization

Health status and medical care utilization.

Utilization of Health Care by Insurance Status

Minnesota Department of Health Introduction With a sizeable number of currently uninsured individuals potentially obtaining health insurance coverage in January 2014, understanding their current patterns of health care utilization can help the state, insurers and providers prepare for this transition. This issue brief illustrates differences in health care utilization for Minnesota residents by...

Poverty, Children’s Health, and Health Care Utilization

Children in higher income families are less likely than poor children to be without a regular source of health care. However, insurance coverage makes a real difference for poor children in terms of access to health care. Among all poor children under six years of age, 21 percent of those without health insurance had no usual source of care, compared with 4 percent of poor children covered by i...