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.
关键词
医疗卫生服务需求/健康信息/健康老龄化
Key words
health care utilization/health information/healthy aging
万方数据