Predictors of participation in preventive health examinations in Austria

BMC Public Health

Thomas Ernst Dorner²  Kathryn Hoffmann¹  Renate Koppensteiner³  Katharina Viktoria Stein²  Anita Rieder²  Sophie Brunner-Ziegler³ 

[1] Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15/I, Vienna, Austria;Institute of Social Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15/I, Vienna, Austria;Department for Internal Medicine, Division of Angiology, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, Vienna, Austria

关键词: Subjective health status;    Chronic diseases;    Socio-economic status;    Preventive health services;   

Others  :  1161494
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-1138

 received in 2013-06-11, accepted in 2013-11-27,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Preventive health check-ups in Austria are offered free of charge to all insured adults (98% of the population) and focus on early detection of chronic diseases, primary prevention, and health counseling. The study aims to explore predictors of compliance with the recommended interval of preventive health check-up performance.

Methods

Source of data was the Austrian Health Interview Survey 2006/07 (15,474 subjects). Participation in a preventive health examination during the last three years was used as dependent variable. Socio-demographic and health-related characteristics were used as independent variables in a multivariate logistic regression analysis.

Results

Results show that 41.6% of men and 41.8% of women had attended a preventive health check-up within the last three years. In multivariate analysis, subjects ≥40 years, with higher education, higher income or born in Austria were significantly more likely to attend a preventive health check-up. Furthermore, a chronic disease was associated with a higher attendance rate (OR: 1.21; CI: 1.07-1.36 in men; OR: 1.19; CI: 1.06-1.33 in women).

Conclusions

Attendance rates for health check-ups in the general Austrian population are comparatively high but not equally distributed among subgroups. Health check-ups must increase among people at a young age, with a lower socio-economic status, migration background and in good health.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Brunner-Ziegler et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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