Preventive health behaviors and physician visits: relevance to health inequality.

This secondary data analysis of the 2009 Israeli National Health Survey of 8,713 households, covering 28,968 individuals demonstrates that PHBs have a positive and highly significant effect on visits to both types of doctors, together with significant associations of the socio-demographic variables (socio-economic status, marital status, age and living with a chronic disease).

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