| dc.description.abstract | There is health inequality in Taiwan over a long period of time because of the demand factors and supply factors. Therefore, This study want to analyze health inequality
caused by them. The research subjects are breast cancer patients. We use the demands factors, supply side factors, the breast cancer death rate and the rate of occurrence of breast cancer in towns in 1999, 2000, 2006 and 2010. We consider that there is an effect between towns so that we use spatial models to solve spatial bias.
The result is that there isn′t spatial clustering on the breast cancer death rate. On the demand variables, the rate of elderly population and the population density have a significantly positive correlation to breast cancer death rate. On the supply variables, only the dummy variable of large-scaled hospitals has a significantly positive correlation to breast cancer death rate. On the other hand, there is spatial clustering on
the rate of occurrence of breast cancer. On the demand variables, the household income and the population density have a significantly positive correlation to the rate of occurrence of breast cancer. On the supply variables, the doctors per ten thousands population and the dummy variable of large-scaled hospitals have a significantly
positive correlation to the rate of occurrence of breast cancer. According to the results, we can infer that the geographic health inequality exist in Taiwan over a long period of time. | en_US |