Discriminating users and nonusers of preventive health care practices and emergency medical walk-in clinics.

Using a consumer-oriented framework and discriminant analysis, the author contrasts users and nonusers of the preventive comprehensive annual physical examination in terms of their demographic characteristics, opinions, and behavior toward health care treatments. Assessments are made of these consumers' awareness and knowledge of the emergency medical walk-in clinic concept. The results give health care professionals some interesting and controversial consumer insights about preventive health care and the walk-in clinic delivery mechanism.