| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
This research focus on finding out economic factors, consumer behaviors, and conditions of living would affect the treatment rate of brain disease. By observing how these factors affected stroke treatment rate, we can provide some suggestions for our government about what policies should be implemented in order to cut down the burden of National Health Insurance.
In this research, we used 18 cities in Taiwan and allocated their citizens into 2 gender groups and 4 age groups. The scale of this research was from 2004 to 2014, so we had 1584 observations in our panel data. The explanatory variables we used were provided by National Development Council, including the level of education, wealth conditions, citizen consumptions, and the level of urbanizations in different cities. Next, we integrated these variables with the brain stroke treatment data provided by the National Health Insurance Research Database,so we can analyze how the differences of residence and the economic conditions can affect the brain disease treatment rate.
About the regression, we used multi-regression in two stages least square or least square to analyze the factors that affect stroke treatment rate by controlling age, gender, and other controlling variables to find the relations of these factors and brain stroke treatment rate.
According to our results, we found that the economic development and level of urbanization had nothing to do with treatment rate of brain disease. However, the availability of medical resources had a negative effect on treatment rate of brain disease. The bad dietary habits had positive effects on brain stroke. About the social status, level of education had a negative effect on stroke in no doubts, but the level of disposable income had nothing to do with treatment rate of stroke. Additionally, our statistical results showed that gender and age were also two crucial factors that explained the treatment rate of brain stroke. Generally, male had more risks of being infected due to stroke than female, and if one individual was older, he/she was more likely to be infected. About the district factor, the central district has the strongest brain stroke treatment rate, and the eastern district is in the second place, southern district is in the third place, finally, the last one would be northern district.
To reduce the treatment rate of our citizens, we proposed some suggestions based on our findings. Firstly, we should impose more taxes on beverages consuming and the taxes must transfer to consumers. Secondly, we assert that about the brain stroke issue, we should focus on the central district. For example, we could higher the medical resource in central district in order to bring down the treatment rate. By implementing the policy suggested above, we can cut down the treatment rate due to brain stroke therefore, to reach the goal that reduce the expenditure of Health Insurance. | en_US |