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    Title: Utilization of well-baby care visits provided by Taiwan's National Health Insurance Program
    Authors: Chen, LW;Yang, WS;Lee, SD;Chang, HC;Yeh, CL
    Contributors: Center for Health Policy Research and Development
    Abstract: In April of 1995, Taiwan's National Health Insurance Program started providing each eligible child a total of six well-baby care visits. The first four are for infancy, the fifth is for the second and the third years of life, and the sixth is for the fourth year. These services are in addition to neonatal screening and a series of primary immunizations that have been publicly financed and utilized conventionally for years. The purposes of this study were to investigate the utilization level of these well-baby care visits, and explore relevant factors. The results reveal that 36% of eligible children did not use any of the first four visits, 58% did not utilize the fifth, and 82% did not use the sixth in the late 1990s. It appears that the take-up of these services is much less than satisfactory. Maternal awareness of and attitudes toward the services appeared to be the most important factors influencing utilization. These two factors not only were most influential, but also significantly contributed to disparities in utilization among different regions and types of residential districts. As a result, they should be the focus of interventions for advancing well-baby care. While these two factors are at the individual level, they are not independent from the health care system because the health care system has impacts on individual factors. Since physicians can serve as a good vehicle for teaching parents about relevant information and correct attitudes, and most physicians in Taiwan complained about the payment scheme, offering stronger incentives for physicians to promote such services might be helpful for achieving a high utilization level of well-baby care. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
    Keywords: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health;Social Sciences, Biomedical
    Date: 2004-10
    Relation: Social Science and Medicine. 2004 Oct;59(8):1647-1659.
    Link to: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.02.008
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    Cited Times(WOS): https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000223458100008
    Cited Times(Scopus): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=3242754957
    Appears in Collections:[Li-Kwang Chen] Periodical Articles

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