Health services utilization: framework and review.
PubMedPublished 1 January 1973Open access
James G. Anderson
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Five different approaches to study the utilization of health services are reviewed and it is suggested that social system models that explicate causal structures and that incorporate features of all the other approaches may provide important new insights into utilization behavior.
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Five different approaches that have been used to study the utilization of health services are reviewed: the sociocultural, sociodemographic, social-psychological, organizational, and social systems. Studies characterizing each approach are described and the limitations of each perspective are outlined. It is suggested that social system models that explicate causal structures and that incorporate features of all the other approaches may provide important new insights into utilization behavior.
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