Nolan Anne
Economic and Social Research Institute, 4 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Health Econ. 2007 Feb;16(2):129-43. doi: 10.1002/hec.1149.
This paper examines the determinants of GP visiting in Ireland, using panel data from the Living in Ireland Survey from 1995-2001. While cross-sectional studies provide important information on GP visiting patterns at a certain point in time, with panel data we can also control for unobserved individual heterogeneity, as well as identify whether it is the same individuals who consistently visit their GP year on year, or whether there is more mobility in visiting. We therefore estimate dynamic models of GP utilisation, and attempt to decompose the observed variation in GP visiting into components attributable to observed individual characteristics, unobserved individual heterogeneity and state dependence.
本文利用1995 - 2001年“生活在爱尔兰”调查的面板数据，研究了爱尔兰全科医生就诊率的决定因素。虽然横断面研究提供了特定时间点全科医生就诊模式的重要信息，但通过面板数据，我们还可以控制未观察到的个体异质性，并确定是否是同一批个体年复一年地持续就诊于他们的全科医生，或者就诊是否存在更多的流动性。因此，我们估计了全科医生利用率的动态模型，并试图将观察到的全科医生就诊差异分解为可归因于观察到的个体特征、未观察到的个体异质性和状态依赖性的组成部分。
