Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Issue 1 2022
Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea (Original article)
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Issue 1 2022
Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea (Original article)
Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea (Original article)
Subject
healthcare cost, Korean traditional medicine, patient acceptance of healthcare, woman, work
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.
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.
Creator
Min Kyung Hyun, Man-Yee Kan
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
March 2022
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
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Language
English
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Text
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Issue 1 2022
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Min Kyung Hyun, Man-Yee Kan, “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Issue 1 2022
Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea (Original article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 21, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2237.
Association Between Work Status and the Use of Healthcare Services Among Women in the Republic of Korea (Original article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 21, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2237.