Socio-Economic Status, Illness, and the Use of Medical Services
- 1 January 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly
- Vol. 35 (1) , 58-66
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3348536
Abstract
This paper examines the relationship of socio-economic status, illness and use of physicians and hospitals in Butler Co., Pennsylvania in 1954. Data were gathered in June and July, 1954, by personal interviews on a probability sample developed through area sampling techniques. The sample consisted of 3403 persons representing about 3% of the County''s population. All are white. Population of the County is 28% urban, 20% rural-place and 52% open country. Six occupational categories were established: proprietors, clerks, skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled. (Farmers were not included in any of the analysis.) When age adjustments were made, no appreciable differences existed among socio-economic groups in illness and use of hospitals.Keywords
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