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Patients’ Healthcare-seeking Preferences of Pediatric Healthcare Providers in Beijing, China

Authors
Boyuan Zhang1, *
1Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100050, China
*Corresponding author. Email: zhangi@uchicago.edu
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Boyuan Zhang
Available Online 31 October 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_49How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Multi-tiered medical system; Healthcare-seeking preferences; Pediatrics; Community healthcare; Chinese healthcare system
Abstract

Patients’ healthcare-seeking preferences is an important factor in the development of the multi-tiered medical system in China, which especially stress relationship between community health institutions and tertiary hospitals. This study aims to identify influential values forming patients’ healthcare-seeking preferences and the underlying factors influencing preference-forming values of pediatric patients. The study distributed 114 questionnaires and 109 were validly completed and returned. The results shows that 98.2% of the participants traveled less than an hour to the institutions, 70.6% of the participants valued medical skill, and 49.5% valued proximity. Company & child relationship, education level, and family income can affect value on medical skill; Family income and values on proximity, medical skill, service attitude, medicine inclusion, and convenience can influence preferences between comprehensive tertiary hospitals and community healthcare institutions; Family income along with value on medical skill, service attitude, and environment can influence whether the patient had any visits to community healthcare institutions within a year; and Relationship, family income, visiting distance, visiting time, wait time in addition to value on proximity, medical skill, and equipment can influence where the participant was surveyed. These results suggest potential in improving pediatric medical resource allocation and community healthcare publicity.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 October 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_49
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_49How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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