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| Support network type and health service utilization | | Author(s) | Howard Litwin |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 19, no 3, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 274-299 |
| Keywords | Social contacts ; Health services ; Usage [services] ; Informal care ; Social surveys ; Israel. |
| Annotation | A secondary analysis of data from a national survey of older people in Israel applied a quick clustering procedure to a set of relational and interactional variables to derive a typology of support networks. The procedure produced six network types significantly differentiated by gender, age, education, years of residence in the country as (1) diversified, (2) friend and family, (3) narrow family focused, (4) attenuated, (5) religious family focused, and (6) traditional extended family support networks. Respondents in the different network types were found to have differing degrees of health service utilisation, as measured on a combined index of nine health services. The healthiest respondents with the most diversified support networks made the greatest use, and those with family-focused networks made the least use of health services. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971113216 A |
| Classmark | TOA: L: QLD: P6: 3F: 7H6 |
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