Self-rated health and endogenous selection into primary care

dc.authorid BILGEL, FIRAT/0000-0002-2585-5975
dc.authorscopusid 36469673500
dc.authorscopusid 55337333900
dc.contributor.author Bilgel, Firat
dc.contributor.author Karahasan, Burhan Can
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-25T11:20:26Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-25T11:20:26Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.department Okan University en_US
dc.department-temp [Bilgel, Firat] Okan Univ, Fac Econ & Adm Sci, Dept Econ & Finance, Tuzla Campus Akfirat, TR-34959 Istanbul, Turkey; [Karahasan, Burhan Can] Piri Reis Univ, Fac Econ & Adm Sci, Dept Econ & Finance, TR-34940 Istanbul, Turkey en_US
dc.description BILGEL, FIRAT/0000-0002-2585-5975 en_US
dc.description.abstract This study assesses the causal effects of primary care utilization on subjective health status in Turkey using individual-level data from the 2012 Health Research Survey. Employing recursive bivariate ordered models that take into account the possibility that selection into healthcare might be correlated with the respondent's self reported health status, we find that selection into primary care is endogenously determined and that the utilization of primary care significantly improves self-rated health after controlling, for sociodemographics, socioeconomic status, health behaviors and risk factors, and access to healthcare. We show that the causal association between healthcare utilization and health status is robust to the use of objective measures of health and specific types of care, suggesting that the use of a single-item question on self-rated health and binary measures of preventive care utilization is valid. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Economic Research Forum (ERF) of the Global Development Network Research Competition on the Economics of Healthcare in the ERF Region [2015-145] en_US
dc.description.sponsorship An extended version of this work, circulating under the title "Self Rated Health and Primary Care Utilization: Is Selection into Healthcare Endogenously Determined?" has benefited from a financial grant from the Economic Research Forum (ERF) under grant no. 2015-145 of the Global Development Network Research Competition on the Economics of Healthcare in the ERF Region. We would like to thank Ragui Assaad, Aysit Tansel, David Bishai and all the participants at the Economics of Health. Care in the ERF Region Workshop for their valuable comments and suggestions. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 5
dc.identifier.doi 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.057
dc.identifier.endpage 182 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0277-9536
dc.identifier.issn 1873-5347
dc.identifier.pmid 29247899
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85037696361
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 168 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.057
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14517/494
dc.identifier.volume 197 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000424724900021
dc.identifier.wosquality Q1
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 8
dc.subject Recursive bivariate models en_US
dc.subject Ordinal outcomes en_US
dc.subject Treatment effects en_US
dc.subject Preventive care en_US
dc.subject TurkeyJEL classification en_US
dc.subject I12 en_US
dc.subject I14 en_US
dc.subject C31 en_US
dc.title Self-rated health and endogenous selection into primary care en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.wos.citedbyCount 6

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