The Effect of Biased Health Perception on Self-Health Care Utilization among Middle Aged and Elderly:Evidence from China
This paper use China Health and Retirement Survey data to study the impact of biased health perception on self-health care utilization among Chinese middle-aged and elderly.We construct the individual level biased health percep-tion variables as the difference between individuals'objective hypertension status and their subjective answer to the hyper-tension.We find that biased health perception significantly lowers the self-health care rate among middle-aged and elderly.We also found that biased health perception significantly reduced the likelihood of outpatient or hospitalization,in-dicating a non-substitute relationship between self-care and formal care.We suggest that strengthen special health educa-tion and construct national screening program as policy response to the high biased health perception rate among middle aged and elderly,which will counteract the negative health effect therein.
health care utilizationhealth informationhealthy aging
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