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The Andersen model is a [[conceptual model| conceptual model]] aimed at demonstrating the factors that lead to the use of health services. According to the model, physician usage is determined by three dynamics: predisposing factors, enabling factors, and need. Predisposing factors can be such factors as race, age, and health beliefs. Examples of enabling factors could be family support, access to health insurance, one's community etc. Need represents both perceived and actual need for health care services. The original model was developed by Ronald M. Andersen, a health services professor at [[UCLA| |
The Andersen model is a [[conceptual model| conceptual model]] aimed at demonstrating the factors that lead to the use of health services. According to the model, physician usage is determined by three dynamics: predisposing factors, enabling factors, and need. Predisposing factors can be such factors as race, age, and health beliefs. Examples of enabling factors could be family support, access to health insurance, one's community etc. Need represents both perceived and actual need for health care services. The original model was developed by Ronald M. Andersen, a health services professor at [[UCLA | UCLA]], in 1968. The original model was expanded through numerous iterations and its most recent form models past the use of services to end at health outcomes. |
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The Andersen model is a conceptual model aimed at demonstrating the factors that lead to the use of health services. According to the model, physician usage is determined by three dynamics: predisposing factors, enabling factors, and need. Predisposing factors can be such factors as race, age, and health beliefs. Examples of enabling factors could be family support, access to health insurance, one's community etc. Need represents both perceived and actual need for health care services. The original model was developed by Ronald M. Andersen, a health services professor at UCLA, in 1968. The original model was expanded through numerous iterations and its most recent form models past the use of services to end at health outcomes.
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