ArticleBMC public health2018
Determinants of utilisation rates of preventive health services: evidence from Chile.
Article in BMC public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Socioeconomic and educational influences on malaria prevention and treatment behaviours in rural Nigeria.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Performance of a national primary care chronic disease screening strategy in Chile: a mixed-methods analysis.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Satisfaction with Health Facility Personnel Among Older People with Disabilities in Chile: An Observational Study Based on the 2024 DISCA Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Observational
- Socio-economic inequalities in the use of flu vaccination in Europe: a multilevel approach.Health economics review · 2024Article
- Under-utilisation of noncommunicable disease screening and healthy lifestyle promotion centres: A cross-sectional study from Sri Lanka.PloS one · 2024Article
- Inequalities changes in health services utilization among middle-aged and older adult disabled people in China: based on CHARLS 2011-2018.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Pathogenic germline variants in BRCA1 and TP53 increase lung cancer risk in Chinese.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
- A study on the current state and equity level of the health promotion service demands among older adults in China.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Health-related quality of life by household income in Chile: a concentration index decomposition analysis.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
- How Sociodemographic Factors Impact the Utilization of Recommended Clinical Preventive Screening Services in Poland: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Preventive health care services utilization and its associated factors among older adults in rural communities in Anambra State, Nigeria.The Pan African medical journal · 2021Article
- Article
- Increasing identification of foot at risk of complications in patients with diabetes: a quality improvement project in an urban primary health centre in India.BMJ open quality · 2020Article
- Unveiling the Significance and Challenges of Integrating Prevention Levels in Healthcare Practice.Journal of primary care & community healthReview
- Cancer Prevention Behaviors in Workers of a Referral Cancer Center in Mexico City: A Pilot Study on Early Detection Awareness for Cancer.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundPreventive health services play a vital role in population health. However, access to such services is not always equitably distributed. In this article, we examine the barriers affecting utilisation rates of preventive health services, using Chile as a case study.
methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study analysing secondary data from 206,132 Chilean adults, taken from the 2015 National Socioeconomic Characterisation Survey of the Government of Chile. We carried out logistic regressions to explore the relationship between the dependent variable use of preventive services and various demographic and socioeconomic variables.
resultsCategories more likely to use preventive services were women (OR=1.16; 95%CI: 1.11-1.21) and inactive people (OR=1.41; 95%CI: 1.33-1.48). By contrast, single individuals (OR= 0.85 ; 95%CI: 0.80-0.91) and those affiliated with the private healthcare provider (OR= 0.89; 95%CI: 0.81-0.96) had fewer odds of undertaking preventive exams.
conclusionsThe findings underline the necessity of better information campaigns on the availability and necessity of preventive health services, addressing health inequality in accessing health services, and tackling lifestyle-related health risks. This is particularly important in countries - such as Chile - characterised by high income inequality and low utilisation rates of preventive health services.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.