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Preventive Activity And National Health Insurance Among Taiwan’S Elderly People

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  • CHUN-WEI LIN

    (Department of International Business, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC)

  • CHI-CHUAN LEE

    (Institute of Development Studies, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, P. R. China)

  • CHIEN-CHIANG LEE

    (Research Center of the Central China for Economic and Social Development, Nanchang University, Nanchang, P. R. China4School of Economics and Management, Nanchang University, Nanchang, P. R. China)

Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the preventive behaviors for middle age people in Taiwan through survey wave comparisons for the period 1993–2007. We first investigate the determinants of preventive behavior and how their effects change over time by using the seemingly unrelated bivariate probit model. Evidence shows that income and education levels do have a significantly positive relation with preventive behavior models, while reported poor health, inpatient and outpatient services, and regions are essential determinants of preventive behaviors. Then, we investigate the impact of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) on preventive behaviors based on the difference-in-difference (DID) analysis. The results show a lack of evidence for the moral hazard effect on preventive care and regular exercise panels over the period 1993–2007.

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  • Chun-Wei Lin & Chi-Chuan Lee & Chien-Chiang Lee, 2022. "Preventive Activity And National Health Insurance Among Taiwan’S Elderly People," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 67(06), pages 2067-2098, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:serxxx:v:67:y:2022:i:06:n:s0217590820500228
    DOI: 10.1142/S0217590820500228
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    Keywords

    Health care; elderly; national health insurance; preventive behavior;
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    JEL classification:

    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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