Volume 13, (Supplement) 1978
Colle, Ann D., and Michael Grossman. 1978. "Determinants of Pediatric Care Utilization." Journal of Human Resources 13(S):115-158.
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.
Colle is with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Grossman is with the National Bureau and the City University of New York Graduate School. Research for this paper was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the National Bureau of Economic Research. We would like to thank Ronald Andersen, Study Director of the 1971 health survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center and the Center for Health Administration Studies of the University of Chicago, for generously making the data available for this study and Charles Phelps for providing us with a cost-of-living deflator. We are indebted to Ates Dagli, Linda Edwards, Bernard Friedman, Victor Fuchs, Arleen Leibowitz, Joseph Newhouse, and Charles Phelps for helpful comments and suggestions. This paper has not yet undergone the review accorded official NBER publications; in particular, it has not yet been submitted for approval by the Board of Directors.
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