Health Care Utilization in Germany

Part I Introduction.- Theorizing, empiricizing and analyzing health care utilization in Germany: An introduction.- Part II Theory.- Re-revisiting the Behavioral Model of Health Care Utilization by Andersen: A review on theoretical advances and perspectives.- Health care utilization within the system of statutory sickness funds in Germany.- Part III Methodology.- The problem of repeated surveys: How comparable are their results regarding utilization of medical services?.- Health care utilization research using secondary data.- Health care utilization: Insights from qualitative research.- Part IV a Results: Selected determinants.- Gender and utilization of health care.- Socioeconomic status and health care utilization in Germany: A systematic review.- Migration and health care utilization in the European context.- How do socioeconomic factors influence the amount and intensity of services utilization by family caregivers of elderly dependents?.- Part IV b Results: Selected diseases.- Health care utilization by dementia patients living at home and their kins.- Utilization of general practitioners by obese men and women: Review for Germany and results from the MONICA/KORA cohorts S3/F3 and S4/F4.- Utilization of physiotherapy by patients with rheumatic diseases.- Participation in self-help activities amongst patients with rheumatic diseases.- Part IV b Results: Selected sectors of care.- Social determinants of utilization of psychotherapy in Germany.- Variation in the use of prevention and health promotion services according to gender, age, socioeconomic, and migration status.- Utilisation of an Integrated Care Pilot in Germany: Morbidity, age and sex distribution of Gesundes Kinzigtal Integrated Care's membership in 2006-08.- Part V Extroduction.- Health care utilization: A concluding note on research prospects.