TY  - JOUR
AU  - Colle,Ann D.
AU  - Grossman,Michael
TI  - Determinants of Pediatric Care Utilization
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 240
PY  - 1979
Y2  - April 1979
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0240
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0240.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Michael Grossman
Ph.D. Program in Economics
City University of New York Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY  10016-4309
Tel: 212/817-7959
Fax: 212/817-1597
E-Mail: mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu
M1  - published as Victor R. Fuchs and Joseph P. Newhouse, eds.. "The Economics of Physician and Patient Behavior" Journal of Human Resources, Supplement to Volume 13 (1978)

AB  - The purpose of this paper is to understand the determinants of utilization of pediatric care -- care rendered to children by all physicians. Multivariate techniques are employed to examine four measures of pediatric care utilization in a national sample of children between the ages of 1 and 5. These measures are the probability of contacting a physician within the past year, the probability of obtaining a preventive physical examination within the past year, the number of office visits to physicians in private practice by children with positive visits, and the average quality of these visits.
ER  -