The medical service utilizations of very elderly population in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Shen-Ming, 顧勝敏
• Other Authors: Te-Jen Lai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60592251115524089893

碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 醫學研究所 === 99 === The Andersen Behavioral Model renders us to explore medical service utilization of very elderly population of Taiwan in this study. Data of this study are from the 2007 survey of a longitudinal cohort project titled, ‘Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan’ (SHLSET), conducted by the Bureau of Health Promotion of Taiwan. Of all, 1,261 qualified respondents who aged more than 78 years in this study. We found that cataract (55.4 %), hypertension (48.5 %), and heart disease (28.7 %) were common diseases in very elderly population. Hip fracture (64.7 %), stroke (55.6 %), and rheumarthritis (38.2 %) were greater impact on their daily life. We also found that only 21.0 % of respondents presented a good self-rank of healthy status while 57.0 % of them with a health deterioration in a period of one year before. Moreover, the results stated that 23.6 % of them experienced emergency services utilization, 92.1 % of them experienced outpatient services utilization, and the related factors were live alone, economical satisfaction, inhabited area, self-rank of healthy status, diseases, and ability of walking. Our study states the majority health problems in very elderly population of Taiwan and the related factors of their behaviors of medical services utilization. Our results maybe render policy-makers or researchers a reference to ensure very elderly population a good quality of medical services utilization and life.