AN ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH DATA ON HEALTH STATUS AND HOSPITAL VISITING BEHAVIOUR

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We treat in this paper the problems which arise in judging whether to visit a hospital for people in incomplete health. Solving these problems will contribute significantly to the induction of an index indicating the necessity for visiting a hospital. Our method is to examine the relation between hospital visiting behaviour and health status, and the relation between the doctors' judgements and the subscribers', applying multiple discriminant analysis to the data on subjective symptoms, laboratory examination, and hospital visiting behaviour obtained from an AMHTS. The results imply the possibility that we can construct an index based only on subjective symptom data which are easily obtained.