Does Having More Time After Retirement Change the Demand for Physician Services

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9102409
AutoresRachel Floersheim Boaz (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Charlotte F Muller, Charlotte Muller (0009-0003-5345-863X, The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Año1989
Volumen27
Número1
Páginas1-15
Fecha de publicación1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
EditorialOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198901000-00001
PMID2911217
OpenAlexW1983303966
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas2

Various aspects of the demand for ambulatory services of physicians have been studied by researchers, but so far the effect of increased availability of nonwork time due to retirement on demand has not been examined. This study investigated whether discouraging early retirement (which was the intent of the 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act) will reduce the use of medical services because persons who continue to work have less time than retirees for visits to doctors. This study found that, for men whose health does not interfere with work and who have had no in-hospital care in the study year, retirement does not increase the demand for ambulatory services when compared with being a part-time or full-time employee. However, compared with full-time self-employment, retirement increases the probability of using any physician services in the year by 14% and the number of physician visits by two visits. Although the self-employed have more control over their work time than employees, they may be more affected than employees by the loss of output and earnings associated with absence from the workplace

Ambulatory · Ambulatory care · Business · Earnings · Economics · Family medicine · Full-time · Health and Retirement Study · Health care · Labour economics · Medical care · Pension · Retirement age · Social security · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Finance · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Gerontology