Life-Styles, Health Status and Medical Care Utilization

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9103401
AutoresClyde R Pope (Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, autor correspondente)
Ano1982
Volume20
Fascículo4
Páginas402-413
Data de publicação1982-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
EditoraOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198204000-00005
PMID7078296
OpenAlexW2008582601
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas4

This study examines the relationship between three life-style variables (drinking, smoking, and physical activity) and three health status measures (physical, mental and general health status) and the use of medical care services. Up to seven years of utilization data were available for linkage with survey data on life-style variables of a random sample of 2,502 adults in an HMO. Relationships between life-style variables and health status measures were examined. Then each life-style variable was examined in relation to medical care utilization for eight disease classes in an ICDA-based disease classification system. A separate analysis is performed for males and females in four age categories. While relationships between the life-style variables and health status measures are not statistically significant for all sex/age groups, they are quite consistently in the expected direction, and life-style variables show some potentially interesting relationships to utilization for diseases with strong psychological or emotional components

Disease · Environmental health · Family medicine · Life style · Medical care · Aging and Gerontology Research · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology