Relationship between the family composition and medical expenses of diseases of the circulatory system. An analysis on medical expenses for the elderly people in national health insurance.
10.2185/jjrm.39.16
- VernacularTitle:農村における世帯構成と老人の循環系疾患医療費との関係について 国民健康保険医療費からの分析
- Author:
Hiroji ESAKI
;
Norio NAKAYOSHI
;
Hiroshi UNE
;
Daisuke WATANABE
;
Masumi MAEDA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1990;39(1):16-22
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
To examine relationship between the family composition and medical expenses for circuration diseases in the elderly people who were 65 or more, we analysed the 1982 and 1983 data of medical expenses of national health insurance in the rural area of Fukuoka Prefecture.
The elderly people were classified into five groups according to whether they were living with their children and whether their spouse was alive.
The results were as follows:
1) In the elderly people who were living with their children, the medical expenses were low among those living with their spouses and high among those living without.
2) In the elderly people who were not living with their children, the medicalexpenses were low among the elderly men with their spouses and high among the eldrly women without.
3) In the elderly people who were living alone, the elderly men and women had low medical expenses in hospital services and ambulatory services.
4) The medical expenses for circulation diseases were more influenced by the presence of spouses than living with their children.
