title: Determinants of pediatric care utilization.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D002662:Child Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004522:Educational Status; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007223:Infant; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010290:Parents; D010820:Physicians / Q000600:supply & distribution; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States