A Study of the Outpatient's Behavioral Decision Based on CHARLS 2015

Qingshun Liu, Lili Li, Ying Shao
2020 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Management Science and Engineering (IC-AMSE 2020)   unpublished
Based on the data of "China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study" (CHARLS 2015), the paper discusses the characteristics and rules of out-patient medical treatment for the middle-old-age group (36-75 years) in China. The founding is that there were no differences in the sex, age, urban and rural distribution of the residence, marital status, and in the same way in the self-sense of health, self-sense of medical satisfaction, self-assessment of physical condition, self-sense of physical
more » ... tion; there is a significant impact on whether to see a doctor as the case of a disease. The results show that even middle-old-age group do not pay attention to disease and health management, and irrational medical treatment behavior is more embodied in the cognitive bias of disease, overconfidence in disease self-healing and the restriction of economic ability, which are also reflected in the differences between urban and rural areas of residence.
doi:10.2991/aebmr.k.200402.042 fatcat:pfplkdkclnbzpixv36r5awsmji