Children with insurance have better access to care and health outcomes if their parents also have insurance. However, little is known about whether the type of parental insurance matters. This study attempts to determine whether the type of parental insurance affects the access to health care services of children.I used data from the 2009-2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and estimated mult...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to examine the joint impact of preventive health behavior (PHB) and social and demographic factors on the utilization of primary and secondary medical care under a universal health care system, as measured by visits to the doctor, who were categorized as either a General Practitioner (GP) or Specialist Doctor (SD). METHODS An ordered probit model was utiliz...

A LTHOUGH simple laboratory tests have been performed At'1.in primary health care for many years, recent technological developments have made it possible to do a much wider range of tests nearer the patient ('near patient testing').'-3 Many of these tests require little equipment and a non-technical person such as a nurse can often obtain a result within a few minutes. In the United States at l...

BACKGROUND Potentially preventable chronic diseases are the greatest contributor to the health gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non--Indigenous Australians. Preventive care is important for earlier detection and control of chronic disease, and a number of recent policy initiatives have aimed to enhance delivery of preventive care. We examined documented delivery of ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the patient or physician practice characteristics predict the use of diabetes preventive care services. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample of 27,169 adult ambulatory care visits, using the 2007 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey data. The outcome variable is whether any preventive care servic...

BACKGROUND Patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) may improve outcomes for non-elderly adults with mental illness, but the extent to which PCMHs are associated with preventive care and healthcare quality for this population is largely unknown. Our study addresses this gap by assessing the associations between receipt of care consistent with the PCMH and preventive care and healthcare quality fo...

Physicians who provide primary care for children have a unique position to provide diagnostic, triage, educational, and preventive dental care for patients. Several papers have been published regarding primary pediatricians' participation in the preventive dental health care of their patients. One publication, a survey of physicians in Alabama focusing on physicians' overall awareness of dental...

BACKGROUND Delivery of preventive health services in primary care is lacking. One of the main barriers is lack of time. We estimated the amount of time primary care physicians spend on important preventive health services. METHODS We analyzed a large dataset of primary care (family and internal medicine) visits using the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (2001-4); analyses were conducte...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine has experienced variations in scope and comprehensiveness of care in recent years. To investigate whether these changes in practice have impacted women's health services, we measured trends in the proportion of preventive women's health visits provided by family physicians nationally. METHODS We analyzed the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey to ...