[Cost per capita in outpatients by gender].

Autor: Villarreal-Ríos E; Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica, Servicios de Salud Querétaro, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Querétaro de Arteaga, México. felibree@infosel.net.mx, Campos Esparza M, Galicia Rodríguez L, Martínez González L, Vargas Daza ER, Torres Labra G, Patiño Vega A, Rivera Martínez MT, Aparicio Rojas R, Juárez Durán M
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Ciencia & saude coletiva [Cien Saude Colet] 2011 Mar; Vol. 16 (3), pp. 1961-8.
DOI: 10.1590/s1413-81232011000300030
Abstrakt: The objective of this study is to identify the annual cost per capita by gender in first level of attention. It is a cost study in Family Physician Units in Mexico. The information corresponded to the year of 2004 and the study divided in the use profile and cost attention. USE PROFILE OF SERVICES: it was studied 1,585 clinical registries of patients, use profile defined by average and attention reasons by department, gender and age group. COST ATTENTION: considered in American dollars it included fixed unit cost (departmentalization adjusted by productivity), variable unit cost (micro cost technical), department unite cost by type attention, and department unit cost by age and gender. The life expectancy was of 73 years for men and 78 for women. Three scenes were identified. The annual cost per capita is superior among woman [US$73.24 (IC 95% $11.38 - $197.49)] than in man [$ 53.11 (IC 95% 2.51 - 207.71)]. The conclusion found that in the first level of attention the cost per capita is greater in woman than in man.
Databáze: MEDLINE