Compared to other age groups, the elderly use health care services the most. True or false? Older men are more likely to live alone than older men. It also highlights the adoption of a lifelong approach to healthy aging. Improving SDOH for people of all ages with different backgrounds and abilities can positively affect health and well-being in the future.
Public health organizations, healthcare providers, policymakers, and public and private sector partners all play a role in achieving that goal. Several of the included studies identified that predisposing factors, such as race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES), influence parents' behavior when seeking medical care. The parents' decision regarding “when” to seek medical care for their child may be influenced by the perception that their child's condition or illness is urgent and by the need for a health professional to reassure them or provide an explanation. The review identified a number of predisposing factors that may influence a parent's decision to seek unscheduled medical care for your children.
Making “appropriate” use of the unscheduled health system can be difficult for patients and requires a more nuanced understanding of how parents understand the illness and the urgency of seeking care. The present narrative review and synthesis identified a number of factors that may influence parental preferences and decision-making when seeking unscheduled pediatric medical care. The current review adopted this approach by extracting data related to different types of unscheduled health services (namely, primary care, emergency services, and after-hours services) and synthesizing them as a single health care system. Once a parent has decided to seek medical care for their child, they will access it in the fastest and most convenient location at any given time.
Studies that directly sought to establish the factors that influence decision-making for access to unscheduled pediatric healthcare (only factors that were explicitly reported from primary sources were included) e. The objective of the current systematic review will seek to identify factors that influence parents' and families' decision-making when seeking unscheduled pediatric medical care. In studies that reviewed medical records, frequent users of emergency services showed high rates of multiple chronic medical conditions, often in combination with psychiatric diagnoses, including alcohol and substance abuse. There is little evidence on the use of unscheduled healthcare as a single system with multiple options that provide unplanned healthcare when needed and, more importantly, on the way in which patients make decisions about seeking care within of that system.
This systematic review sought to examine the non-medical factors that influence parents' decision-making when seeking unscheduled medical care for their children. Each of the studies included in the systematic review focused on one or more specific health services included in the field of unscheduled health care; however, none of the studies examined parents' use or preferences for first-contact health care as a single service with multiple features and shared access points.
