This might explain the lower utilization of healthcare services by elderly citizens.
Patients with telemedically supported case management showed a lower utilization of medical services as well as better medical outcomes.
In unregulated markets, managed care penetration was later and lower at baseline, and there was a greater shortage of MDs, stricter regulation of NP practices, greater market power concentration in the health insurance industry, lower population density and higher distance to providers, and lower utilization of endoscopy, among other things (Tables 3 and 4).
Penetration of managed care insurance and poverty rates varied widely across the counties and states, which empowers statistical tests of whether the prevalence of managed care market spillover effects or poverty were associated with higher or lower utilization of cancer screening, and whether these associations varied across states with different insurance regulatory regimes.
However, the available data for this population indicate that Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders experience significant health disparities when compared to other groups, such as lower utilization of health care services and higher rates of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity.
The higher risk of neoplastic mortality observed among individuals in lower-SES neighbourhoods may be partly to lower utilization of diagnostic imaging, as has been documented elsewhere in Canada [41].
Specifically, our study suggests that lower utilization of prenatal care, albeit only marginally so, does not increase adverse birth outcomes for mothers from low income areas of New Mexico.
Remoteness was associated with lower utilization of non-professional support.
These districts have lower utilization of SBA services (14).
The FCLICs had a lower utilization of outpatient departments.
Lesser education of mother has been associated with lower utilization of health services.
