One possible reason could be an increase in propensity for seeking care.
The diverging colour scheme (Figure 5C) was preferred by a significantly greater proportion of stakeholders than scientists, as this group may have a greater propensity for seeking risk-related information.
The second assumption is that both pipiens and hybrid females have a greater propensity for seeking swarms for mating.
The current study, however, showed that increased accessibility and continuity are associated with higher propensity to seek care and that a higher country level propensity to seek care is not necessarily associated with lower rates of avoidable hospitalization for asthma, COPD, CHF or diabetes.
Therefore, impulse control deficits are associated with the propensity to seek cocaine compulsively (Belin et al., 2008) and the propensity to relapse after abstinence.
A higher propensity to seek care leads to a slightly higher GP use, whilst no association was found for country level propensity to seek care and avoidable hospitalization for several chronic conditions.
Furthermore, several predisposing factors were significantly associated with higher propensity to seek care: female patients, older patients and first generation migrants tend to have higher scores on the propensity scale, although, the effects are small (0.05, 0.06 and 0.07 respectively on a scale of 0 to 10).
This study investigates the association between the propensity to seek care and the number of GP visits on patient level and the association between a population's propensity to seek care and rates of avoidable hospitalization at country level.
On the other hand, a high propensity to seek care can also lead to unnecessary use or overuse of GP services, especially when there is a high propensity to seek care for non-urgent complaints.
To rule out the possibility that pregnant women simply had an increased propensity to seek care or, in layman's terms, were neurotic they looked at whether they were more likely to go to hospital when involved in crashes that they did not cause, because they were passengers or pedestrians.
