• DocumentCode
    3658410
  • Title

    Health Capital Depreciation and Medical Care Demand: An Empirical Study of Taiwan´s Senior Citizens

  • Author

    Jwu Rong Lin;Ching-Yu Chen;Shuo-Chun Weng

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Int. Bus., Tunghai Univ., Taichung, Taiwan
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    116
  • Lastpage
    119
  • Abstract
    This research aims at studying health capital depreciation of senior citizens and their corresponding medical care demand. Qualitative response models are constructed, followed by empirical studies. Data is collected from inpatients of Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology at Taichung Veterans General Hospital from 2008 to 2012. All test subjects are under comprehensive geriatric assessment to characterize levels of health capital depreciation. Medical care demand is defined by length of hospital stay.
  • Keywords
    "Hospitals","Geriatrics","Senior citizens","Education","Economics","Biological system modeling"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2015 IEEE 39th Annual
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0730-3157
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/COMPSAC.2015.219
  • Filename
    7273337
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3658410