Background: As China is still in the process of establishing the hierarchical medical system, people have full autonomy in choosing medical institutions when they need to see a doctor. The basic working of a hierarchical medical system involves four parts: primary treatment at the community level, two-way referral, a partition of emergency and chronic disease, and a joint effort among different healthcare facilities. This study examines factors associated with primary healthcare use in a middle-aged and elderly Chinese population. Methods: Our study is a cross-sectional and observational survey involving 1659 adults aged 45 and above. The data are from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. According to the Andersen behavioral model, we used logistic regression to analyze the influencing factors of healthcare services utilization, including predisposing, enabling, and need factors. We also compared the relative importance of factors to healthcare services utilization by analysis of variance. Results: During the recently 1-month period, 63.89% of the sample had their last visit to a primary healthcare facility. In the final logistic model, there were three predisposing characteristics (education level, children number, and work status), three enabling factors (household status, out-of-pocket expenses, and travel time to the healthcare facilities), and one need factor (three specific chronic diseases) were significantly associated with

Background: This study examined the relationship between childhood circumstances and health in middle and later life. We quantified how childhood circumstances contribute to health in later life, both directly and indirectly, through their effects on potential mediators.Methods: This study used three waves of data from the national longitudinal survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). The final model in this study included 7,476 eligible respondents aged 45 years and above. We constructed a simple health status measure based on the first principal component of CHARLS survey responses with 25 health-related information. It is a multi-dimensional measurement that comprehensively reflects the individual's healthy aging. We formulated childhood circumstances factors into five domains: childhood health and nutrition, childhood socioeconomic status, access to health care, parental genetics, and adverse childhood experiences. Ordered logit regression was conducted to analyze the relationship between health in middle and later life and childhood circumstances, with other explanatory variables controlled.Results: Controlling for educational attainment, personal income, and health status in the last wave, adults who experience good childhood health (poor as the base, coefficient 0.448, p < 0.01), and better family financial status (worse as the base, coefficient 0.173, p < 0.01) have significantly better health during their middle and later life, in comparison, being inconvenient to visit a doctor (coefficient −0.178, p < 0.01), and having two or three adverse childhood experiences (0 as the base, coefficient −0.148, p < 0.01) are significantly associated with poorer health. Childhood circumstances appear to act both through a lasting effect of initial health and financial status in childhood and through their impact on achievements in adulthood.Conclusion: Our findings suggest that investments in health during childhood not only contribute to health in later life but also dynamically improve an individual's educational attainment and personal income, as well as other life prospects. All these returns may extend far beyond childhood and continue throughout the lifespan.

4.3 (1.4) (1=never, 7=always); Product Avoidance scale 4.6 (1.1) (1=almost none, 7=almost all); and, Social Impact scale 3.9 (1.5) (1=negligibly small, 7=extremely great). High rates of PA-related healthcare use in the previous 12 months were reported: PA-related hospitalization (34.3%); scheduled (84.4%) and unscheduled (55.0%) allergist visit; PA-related general practitioner visit (62.8%); $1 EA injection (58.8%); emergency department/urgent care visit (56.9%); and over-the-counter medication for PA (65.7%). Conclusions: Despite currently available PA management approaches, adolescents have substantial concerns regarding their health risks and frequently require various forms of healthcare to deal with PA reactions. There remains an unmet need for an approved treatment that safely provides certainty of protection to alleviate the constant fear of accidental exposure.

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