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Use of Practitioner‐Based and Self‐Care Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States: A Demand for Health Perspective
Author(s) -
Bhargava Vibha,
Hong GongSoog,
Montalto Catherine P.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1552-3934.2012.02126.x
Subject(s) - modalities , national health interview survey , chiropractic , massage , medicine , health care , socioeconomic status , residence , ethnic group , marital status , family medicine , perspective (graphical) , alternative medicine , medical expenditure panel survey , gerontology , demography , environmental health , health insurance , population , social science , pathology , artificial intelligence , sociology , anthropology , computer science , economics , economic growth
This study examined the economic and noneconomic predictors of the likelihood of practitioner‐based and self‐care Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( CAM ) utilization. Two practitioner‐based CAM modalities, chiropractic and massage therapy, and two self‐care CAM modalities, herbs and yoga, were examined using the 2007 National Health Interview Survey ( NHIS ). The hypotheses were based on an economic model of demand for health proposed by Grossman ([Grossman, M., 1972]). Geographic region of residence, resources including income, time factors including presence of children under age 18 and hours of work, productivity factors including age, education, and health status, and preference factors including gender, race/ethnicity, marital status, and health behaviors were significant predictors of likelihood of CAM use. There was some variation in both direction and magnitude of the effects of economic and noneconomic predictors of CAM use across the modalities.