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Factors that Influence Healthcare Utilization

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I need to identify three important factors that influence health care utilization and to pick the most important one to write an essay about. Could you help me to get started on this please?

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This 352 word solution provides a variety of ideas about barriers to health care utilization and suggests some potential remedies to these barriers. Additionally, the expert provides some examples from their professional experience of some of these barriers. It is designed to give suggestions for possible essay topics related to the subject.

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There are many factors that influence health care utilization. One large factor is socioeconomic status (SES). A common theme where I live (a rural, SES deficient region) is that, those below the poverty level have Medicaid to rely on for health care. However, those who fall just above this level typically don't. Employers are small and often do not offer benefits. This group barely makes enough to get by and can't afford even routine examinations.

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