Social Network Types, Health, and Health-Care Use Among South Korean Older Adults

Park, Sojung; Kang, Ji Young; Chadiha, Letha A.

doi:10.1177/0164027516682814

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“…In this sense, the application of social networks approach in the study of social environments where people live and work is fundamental to understand how interactions, social connectedness, and functions and types of social networks might be critical for health outcomes at different times and ages [27,28]. Some authors have established types of networks based on the characteristics of network composition or types of social support or interaction such as frequency, and these have been related to aspects such as the capacity of interpersonal environments to mobilise and share resources [29], health-related behaviours [30], perceived availability of social support [31] and healthcare usage [32]. The main idea of this approach is that individuals are surrounded by a network of relationships that influence health-related behaviours [33] and help-seeking resources.…”

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Personal Network Analysis in the Study of Social Support: The Case of Chronic Pain

Fernández-Peña

Molina

Valero

2018

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In the context of chronic illness, the individual’s social and relational environment plays a critical role as it can provide the informal support and care over time, beyond healthcare and social welfare institutions. Social Network Analysis represents an appropriate theoretical and methodological approach to study and understand social support since it provides measures of personal network structure, composition and functional content. The aim of this mixed method study is to present the usefulness of Personal Network Analysis to explore social support in the context of chronic pain. Personal and support network data of 30 people with chronic pain (20 alters for each ego, 600 relationships in total) were collected, obtaining measures of personal network structure and composition as well as information about social support characteristics. Also, semi-structured interviews with participants were conducted to identify the context of their experience of pain, their limitations as regards leading an autonomous life, their social support needs and other aspects concerning the effect of pain on their social and relational lives. This approach shows the importance of non-kin social support providers and the significant role of non-providers in the personal networks of people suffering chronic pain.

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Personal Network Analysis in the Study of Social Support: The Case of Chronic Pain

Fernández-Peña

Molina

Valero

2018

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“…As income increased, the use of health services increased and vice versa. This relationship was also true based on satisfaction with economic status, household assets, individual wealth, household expenses, monthly and annual household income [5,17,25,30,31,37,39,43,47,52,53,58,59,61]. Regarding employment status, retired and unemployed elderly people used less health services than employed elderly people [3,12,64].…”

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“…Andersen's behavioral model of health service utilization was used as a theoretical framework to classify the Results of this study into three categories: Predisposing factors (Age, gender, marital status, ethnicity), Enabling factors (Education level, employment status, income level, insurance coverage, social network, social support, place of residence) and Need factors (Having a chronic disease, self-assessed health status, need for health care services, severity of the disease, number of diseases, comorbid diseases, type and duration of disease, having disability or functional limitation, unhealthy lifestyle). Findings of the reviewed articles showed that with the increase of age, the need to use health services increases [3,15,25,33,37,39,40,43,50,53,54,56,59], but in some studies, with increasing age and exceeding 85 years, the use of health services decreased [55,58,61]. Gender was associated with access to health services such that women were significantly more likely to seek health services [5,9,15,17,25,30,39,43,45,49,50,52,53,54,58,59,61,64].…”

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“…Regarding employment status, retired and unemployed elderly people used less health services than employed elderly people [3,12,64]. Several studies have linked higher education to health service use [1,3,25,35,43,47,52], although some studies showed that this linear relationship is not always established and higher education was related to using less outpatient health services in the elderly [5,16,17,37,58,61]. Having health insurance, including commercial and private insurance, and the amount of costs covered by insurance was associated with greater access to health services in the elderly [25,41,43,47,59,63,64].…”

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Barriers and Facilitators of the Outpatient Health Service Use by the Elderly

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Objectives: Increasing care needs for the elderly are an important concern for different countries, especially those with an aging population. It is important for health policy making to have knowledge of the factors affecting the use of health services in the elderly to identify the potential problems and develop appropriate interventions for improving utilization and increasing access to health services. This study aims to investigate the barriers and facilitators of the outpatient health service use in the elderly Methods & Materials: In this systematic review, studies in English published from 1996 to 2019 were searched in Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus databases using PRISMA guidelines and related keywords. After eliminating duplicate and irrelevant articles, the quality of remaining articles was evaluated by two evaluators independently, based on STROBE checklist. Narrative synthesis method was used to combine the data Results: Forty-four eligible studies were included for the review. The determinants of the health service use were divided into three categories of predisposing factors (e.g. age, gender, marital status, ethnicity), enabling factors (e.g. income, insurance coverage, education level, employment status, social network, social support), and need factors (e.g. having chronic disease, self-assessed health status, severity of disease, number of diseases, comorbid diseases, physical disability, unhealthy lifestyle). Findings showed that age >80 years, ethnic minority, being unemployed and retired, low educational level, small and limited social network, and physical disability were the barriers to using outpatient health services, while being female, married, having insurance, social support, having a companion during a disease, having children, high income level, and shorter distance to the health care centers were the facilitators of using outpatient health services in the elderly Conclusion: A group of factors are associated with the outpatient health service use by the elderly. These factors include predisposing, enabling, and need-related factors according to Andersen’s behavioral model of health service use. Interventions to increase the use of health services by the elderly should be based on these factors, and should be taken into account by the policymakers to reduce the burden of health services caused by diseases.

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“…These people will interact continuously to discuss and resolve any matters related to the elderly at the centers; thus, an effective support system and conducive environment would be significant to improve the health and happiness of the elderly. Hence, their knowledge and skills in health care will help them to provide better services to elderly, and also help them to be more knowledgeable and skilled health care practitioners, needed for the health promotion and education of elderly care to the public (World Health Organization, 2016;Park et al, 2018). More importantly, the well-developed aging care centers and skilled operators that have the right attitude and adequate knowledge on providing the individual care to the elderly are required in the aging care services.…”

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Ageing Care Centers: Mediating Role of Quality Care and Proactive Environment

Noor

Isa

Hossain

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The aging population has become a significant concern in many countries, including Malaysia. As a developing country, Malaysia is still struggling to provide better care for the elderly segment, which is increasing in number and demands distinctive attention, care, and treatment from both family and society. This study aims to examine the relationship between Perception of Health and Happiness, Behavioral Attitude, Health Promotion, and Education, Quality Care, Proactive Environment, and Elderly Care Services in Aging care centers in Malaysia. A probability simple random sampling technique was utilized in distributing a survey-based questionnaire, and 328 responses were collected from entrepreneurs of both registered and non-registered aging care centers. The research model was assessed using Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling. The remarkable results of the research are: (1) Perception of Health and Happiness do not affect Quality Care and Proactive Environment. (2) Behavioral Attitude, Health Promotion, and Education significantly affect the quality care and Proactive Environment. (3) Quality Care and Proactive Environment significantly mediate the relationship between Behavioral Attitudes, Health Promotion, and Education. (4) Quality Care insignificantly mediates the relationship between Proactive Environment and Perception of Health and Happiness. The findings revealed that Behavioral Attitude, Health Promotion, and Education have a significant effect. Hence, the present study should further be strengthened to enhance the aging care of elderly care center services for the betterment of elderly care centers, especially those that are operated by entrepreneurs. The implication of the study is discussed in the paper.

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Social Network Types, Health, and Health-Care Use Among South Korean Older Adults

Cited by 14 publications

References 47 publications

Personal Network Analysis in the Study of Social Support: The Case of Chronic Pain

Personal Network Analysis in the Study of Social Support: The Case of Chronic Pain

Barriers and Facilitators of the Outpatient Health Service Use by the Elderly

Ageing Care Centers: Mediating Role of Quality Care and Proactive Environment

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