미 충족의료의 현황과 관련요인 -1차, 2차 한국복지패널자료를 이용하여-

초록

A Study on unmet medical need is important in order to explore the condition of medical utilization as a measure for the evaluation of a national health care system. Using the 1st and 2nd wave Korea Welfare Panel Data, the prevalence and association factors of unmet medical need due to economic difficulty were analysed. For this ends, the cross-sectional analysis and the longitudinal analysis with descriptive and analytic step were implemented. The prevalence rates of unmet medical need were 5.54% (1st wave), 2.99% (2nd wave) and the significant factors associated with unmet medical need were householder's age, householder's education level, householder's subjective health status, and house income class. The factors strongly associated with the probability which they experienced unmet medical need or dropped from met medical need group to unmet medical need group or left in the unmet need group were house income class and householder's subjective health status. In spite of limitations of analysis and data, these results suggest that policies for ensuring the adequate income security, the protection of health, and the promotion of health are still important for the poor to escape from the unmet medical need status.

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