WHO/ICS Medical Care Utilization Study Data, 1968-1969

Research instruments applied in an international survey on the use of medical care and its relation to characteristics of the population and the prevailing health care systems. Variables include psychosocial and demographic characteristics, levels of ill-health and perceived morbidity, reasons for use of health services, and use of prescribed and non-prescribed medicines.

Keywords

Health care systems; Psychosocial and demographic characteristics; Advice; Age; Anxiety; Appointments; Arthritis; Attitudes; Children; Coughing; Dental diseases; Dental treatment; Dentists; Depression; Diseases; Drug use; Educational background; Employment; Financial resources; Gender; Health; Health professionals; Health services; Hospital services; Hospitalization; Households; Immunization; Income; Interpersonal communication; Leave; Marital status; Medical care; Medical examinations; Medical insurance; Medical prescriptions; Occupations; Pain; Patients; Physical disabilities; Physicians; Professional consultations; Respiratory tract diseases; Responsibility; Rooms; Satisfaction; Savings; Sick certificates; Sick leave; Sight; Smoking; Social security; Symptoms; Time; Travel