The Utilization of Chinese Medicine in Taiwan:An application of Two-part model Analysis

• Main Authors: Kai-Wei Wu, 吳凱薇
• Other Authors: Chin-Tun Hung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05198032611240568337

碩士 === 中臺科技大學 === 健康產業管理研究所 === 100 === Background and object : Chinese medicine is one of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Payment Services. Public needs & utilization of Chinese medicine is an important decision factor to provide services to Chinese medical health care system. Therefore understanding the characteristics of person utilizing Chinese medical system will help to clarify the direction of policy planning in health insurance system. Method : This study belongs to secondary data analysis of research of National Institutes of Health from 2004-2008, using National Health Insurance Academic Research Database of sample owned by the personal profile data analysis Two-Part Model statistics to identify the medical use of factors affection models. The first part of the Logistic Regression model analysis of uses Chinese medicine impact factor; the second part of the model has been extracted from Chinese medicine health care users, and then use the Multiple Regression to investigate the influence of demographic data controlling the marginal effect of numbers utilizing Chinese medicine. Result : From 2004-2008 average person using Chinese medicine per year is about 1.4 times, so public utilization of Chinese medicine healthcare is 40.01% in 2008 and the utilization of Chinese medicine health care by average person per annum is 5.44 times, Two-Part Mosel analysis found that utilization rate of women and Western medicine versus utilization rate of Chinese medical care utilization is positively correlated, but with increasing age the numbers utilizing Chinese medicine decrease. Conclusion and suggestion : Utilization of Chinese medicine healthcare insurance is affected by age, gender and other demographic features. Utilization rate of Western health care and utilization rate of Chinese medicine health care seems to be complementary. Health Authorities should consider the population structure of different regional factors and carefully audit the correcting factors of utilization rate and configure appropriate Chinese medicine health care resources to achieve most effective configuration of overall health care resources.