Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea
Introduction: Previous studies on occupational health focussed predominately on the occurrence of occupational diseases. Relatively few studies have measured how employment is associated with the use of healthcare services. This study investigates the association between employment and the extent an...
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| description | Introduction: Previous studies on occupational health focussed predominately on the occurrence of occupational diseases. Relatively few studies have measured how employment is associated with the use of healthcare services. This study investigates the association between employment and the extent and range of healthcare use, such as medical expenditures, of women in South Korea. Methods: We analyze data of the Korean Health Panel, an ongoing longitudinal national representative survey, from 2008 to 2017, to identify the status of economic activity of women by year and age group. We estimate the association between female employment status and medical expenditures by using random effect panel Tobit models. Furthermore, we investigate the association between employment status and the range of healthcare services in biomedicine and traditional Korean medicine (KM) by conducting conditional fixed-effects logistic regression analyses. Results: For women aged between 25 and 65 in 2017, the majority of them were employed or self-employed. (The proportion of employment of self-employment equals 64.80%). In addition, working women spent 11.6% less on healthcare than nonworking women, and self-employment lowered the healthcare expenditure by 13.1%. Neither work nor the type of work is related to the types and range of healthcare service use. Being employed or self-employed is negatively associated with women’s expenditure on healthcare. Conclusions: The findings show that employment is associated with less spending on healthcare. They imply that employment has a positive impact on women’s health. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-77bbf840cf884860aa5b45e5fa426aa42023-09-02T10:07:52ZengElsevierSafety and Health at Work2093-79112022-03-011315158Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of KoreaMin Kyung Hyun0Man-Yee Kan1Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Dongguk University, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Sociology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Corresponding author. Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, 42-43 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1JD, United Kingdom.Introduction: Previous studies on occupational health focussed predominately on the occurrence of occupational diseases. Relatively few studies have measured how employment is associated with the use of healthcare services. This study investigates the association between employment and the extent and range of healthcare use, such as medical expenditures, of women in South Korea. Methods: We analyze data of the Korean Health Panel, an ongoing longitudinal national representative survey, from 2008 to 2017, to identify the status of economic activity of women by year and age group. We estimate the association between female employment status and medical expenditures by using random effect panel Tobit models. Furthermore, we investigate the association between employment status and the range of healthcare services in biomedicine and traditional Korean medicine (KM) by conducting conditional fixed-effects logistic regression analyses. Results: For women aged between 25 and 65 in 2017, the majority of them were employed or self-employed. (The proportion of employment of self-employment equals 64.80%). In addition, working women spent 11.6% less on healthcare than nonworking women, and self-employment lowered the healthcare expenditure by 13.1%. Neither work nor the type of work is related to the types and range of healthcare service use. Being employed or self-employed is negatively associated with women’s expenditure on healthcare. Conclusions: The findings show that employment is associated with less spending on healthcare. They imply that employment has a positive impact on women’s health.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791121000834healthcare costKorean traditional medicinepatient acceptance of healthcarewomanwork |
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| title | Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea |
| title_full | Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea |
| title_fullStr | Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea |
| title_short | Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea |
| title_sort | association between work status and the use of healthcare services among women in the republic of korea |
| topic | healthcare cost Korean traditional medicine patient acceptance of healthcare woman work |
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