Findings from P. Deng and Co-Authors Provides New Data about Health Insurance (Access to medicines for acute illness and antibiotic use in residents:…
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Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, "We used logistic regression models to identify the determinants of care-seeking outside the home and subsequent antibiotic use among the surveyed residents. Overall, 1103 valid questionnaires were collected, and 458 households reported that they had had experienced at least one acute illness in the previous 2 weeks. Of these households, 97.2% of individuals with acute conditions sought care outside their homes and 40.1% of individuals who took medicine received antibiotics. Only 15.9% of the individuals with acute conditions reported that the medical insurance reimbursement covered at least one medicine. According to the multivariate analyses, women were less likely to seek care outside the home compared to men. Among those who sought outside care, fever and upper respiratory symptoms increased the odds of taking antibiotics, and visiting a private hospital also increased antibiotic use. Low-income households were less likely to receive antibiotics. Symptoms were strong determinants of antibiotic use when patients sought outside care. The accessibility of medicine for acute illness among households in western
According to the news editors, the research concluded: "The percentage of antibiotic use in patients with acute illness has declined, but the indications for using antibiotics must be standardized."
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