The ecology of gynecological care for women.

Gynecological care is vital to women's health but utilization of gynecological care has been seldom addressed. We applied the population-based "ecology model" to demonstrate the utilization of gynecological care of women, with examples from Taiwan. We analyzed the claims data from the cohort datasets within the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan.

The ecology of medical care in Taiwan.

Background: In regular administrative statistics for medical services, utilization data are usually presented as aggregate data and lack an individual perspective. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of medical care utilization in Taiwan using a long-established analytical framework, the so-called ecology model.

Methods: Claims data for a cohort of one million people from the National Health Insurance (NHI) Research Database were used to estimate the yearly and monthly prevalence of health care utilization in Taiwan in 2005.