This study, using Andersen's health care utilization model, examined how predisposing
characteristics, enabling resources, need, personal health practices, and psychological
factors influence health care utilization using a nationally representative, longitudinal
sample of Canadian adolescents. Second, this study examined whether this process varies
across physicians, non-physicians, and dentists. The results indicate that need and
psychological factors were strong determinants of utilization. Predisposing factors were …