Health Information and the Demand for Preventive Care among the Elderly in Taiwan
利用直接测量的健康信息数据，研究台湾老年人健康信息的决定因素及其对预防性护理需求的影响，发现更多更好的健康信息能提高老年人使用预防性护理的概率，而信息不均等可能成为获取预防性护理的障碍。
This paper uses a direct measure of information to empirically investigate the determinants of consumer health information and the linkage of the information to demand for preventive care. In our analysis, two equations are estimated: (1) health information and (2) demand for preventive care, which includes health information as an endogenous explanatory variable. Overall, the results show that more and better health information increases the probability that the elderly will use preventive care. This result, in combination with the finding that health information is not uniform among the elderly, suggests that poor information can become an access barrier to preventive care.