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KMID : 0386819950050010075
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Journal of the Institute of Health Environmental Sciences
1995 Volume.5 No. 1 p.75 ~ p.82
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An Estimation of the Information cost at Primary Care Level
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Abstract
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This study intended to estimate information costs at primary care level and to investigate the factors that would impact on the costs.
The object of this study was the outpatients of the 8 clinics selected by random sampling in Kwan-ak Gu, Jong-no Gu, and Kang-nam Gu.
This study employed the research method to interview with 164 outpatients of these clinics mentioned above.
This study was undergone with hypothesis that the information searching activity in medical sector would include the purchasing activity. therefore, the cost of medical shopping-around was regarded as also information costs. but, Owing to the
technical
reason, this study did not include the time cost, the provisional cost that would be spent for the delayed pain(the case of not being cured in exact time), and the cost calculated by valuing the pain itself.
Thus, including shopping-around cost, the estimate of information cost was 45,787 won.
According to the results, the information cost will rise as the disease-experience is less, symptoms of the disease is mors serious, client-agent relationship is weaker, and usual health status is worse.
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