The Problems for Academic and Entrepreneurial Research in the Use of Health Services

The Case of Unstable Structural Relationships

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2276183
AutoresFredric D Wolinsky (0000-0002-0916-4955, Saint Louis University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1981
Volumen22
Número2
Páginas207-223
Fecha de publicación1981-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1533-8525.1981.tb00656.x
OpenAlexW2139130156
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas14

Multiple regression analysis was used to determine the longitudinal stability of the structural relationships between the predisposing, enabling, and illness-morbidity characteristics of the population-at-risk and measures of health services utilization. The structural coefficients estimated from the 1971, 1972, and 1973 Health Interview Surveys were examined using the Relative Instability Ratio (RIR) presented in this paper. The RIR values indicate that—except for age, family size, occupation, and family income—all the predisposing, enabling, and illness-morbidity characteristics produce unstable structural relationships. In addition, a negative monotonic relationship was found between the temporal ordering of the groups of characteristics and their ability to produce stable structural relationships. These results demonstrate the need for entrepreneurial health manpower projection techniques and abstract academic explanatory models of health services utilization to become dynamic, rather than remaining in their present static states

Actuarial science · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Health services · Monotonic function · Population · Sociology · Stability (learning theory) · Computer Science · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Healthcare Policy and Management · Mathematics · Psychology