A Study on the Decision-Making of Patients' Non-hospitalization Behavior

Abstract

The phenomenon of "expensive seeking doctor" not only brings great physical and psychological pressure and economic burden to the patient, but also enlarges the anxiety, the suspicion, the fear and the non-rational medical treatment. Based on the data of "China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study", the paper found that there was no significant effect on the choice behavior of "doctor suggested hospitalization but not" by the sex, age, marital status and etc. However, the relationship between the satisfaction of medical service, the self-assessment health status and the health satisfaction was positively related to the degree of regular pain and self-feeling depression. Moreover the effect of self-assessment health status and regular body pain is the most effective, and the degree of self-feeling depression is the least.