The relationship between the accessibility and the mortality of apoplexy patients in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yu-Hsuan Huang, 黃羽瑄
• Other Authors: Wei-Der Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83417356684354140761

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 產業經濟研究所 === 98 === The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the accessibility and the mortality of apoplexy patients. The accessibility in this paper means that the distance from apoplexy patients’ home to the hospital. Base on the National Health Insurance Bureau claims data which the years of the data is from 1996 to 2007, we analyze these data, the distance and the characteristics of hospital and patients, for the mortality of apoplexy patients. Moreover, we apply Linear Probability Model to our paper. Finally, when we control the characteristics of hospital, the distance from apoplexy patients’ home to the hospital is the essential factor for the mortality of apoplexy patients. The farther distances are, the higher mortality of apoplexy patients is. Furthermore, we find that patients’ income is also an important effect for the mortality of apoplexy patients. However, we don’t get the true address of hospital and apoplexy patients’ home, the estimation of our paper may have some biases.