With its rapid growth, the consequences of the increasing aging population on ED service utilization need to be addressed.
To be optimally effective, interventions to promote maternal health service utilization need to take these findings into consideration: they should target the underlying individual, household, community and state-level factors that are relevant to each type of maternal health service.
More information concerning home healthcare service utilization is needed to meet the needs of a rapidly aging population in Taiwan.
Dunlop et al. [ 7] found that lower socioeconomic status (SES) was associated with increased use of primary care and lower rates of specialist service utilization, whereas health needs as measured by perceived health status and health condition predicted utilization across the board.
Access to health care as an outcome is a multi-layered concept to be best approximated by measuring health service utilization and unmet need [ 16– 16].
Therefore, it is possible to assess the outcomes of change on the population in terms of services utilization, unmet needs and experience of care (accessibility, continuity, comprehensiveness and responsiveness).
This study examined profiles and determinants of social and health service utilization, and unmet service needs, in a two-city sample of young (18 24 years), marginalized crack users in Brazil.
The information needs of health workers and those with responsibilities for leadership in the health system are broad and vast, including data on health needs, service utilization, vital statistics and surveillance of relevant communicable diseases.
To analyze latent class membership and use of health services (aim 2), after assigning respondents to barrier classes, we used multiple logistic regression (STATA version 11.0; College Station, TX) to assess the association between class membership and measures of health service utilization and unmet medical needs.
The strongest determinants of health service utilization are perceived health need and accessibility of services [ 37].
