Health care financing for the elderly [Financiamiento de la atención a la salud de la población de la tercera edad]
Por:
Durán-Arenas L., Reynaldo-Sánchez, Vallejo M., Carreón J., Franco F.
Publicada:
1 ene 1996
Resumen:
Objective. To determine the direct financial requirements for providing health care to the elderly in Mexico along with an estimation of the current expenditures from services provided to this same population. Material and methods. Health care needs for the elderly were estimated from the censuses and the database of the National Health Survey II. In addition, service use trends for the aged were obtained from health sector statistical yearbooks. Finally, the amounts of expenditures were estimated by two methods: a) using a formula that considers hospital discharges, daily bed costs and length of stay; and b) inferring hospital expenditures and ambulatory visits from the numbers of hospital discharges. Results. Currently health care needs of the aged outnumber the amount of resources and the capacity of the health care sector to meet these needs. Our estimates for the year 1994 show that 4.9% of the total budget available to public health care institutions was dedicated to hospital services provided to the elderly.
Filiaciones:
Durán-Arenas L.:
Dir. Organizacion de Sist. de Salud, Ctro. de Invest. en Sist. de Salud, Inst. Nac. de Salud Pública, México, Mexico
Reynaldo-Sánchez:
Director Calidad Atencion/T.S., Dir. Gen. Estud. Economia la Salud, Secretaría de Salud (SSA), México, Mexico
Vallejo M.:
Subdirector de Mejoria de la Calidad, Dir. Calidad Atencion/Tecnologia S., México, Mexico
Carreón J.:
Subdirector Efectividad Programas S., Dir. Calidad tencion/Tecnologia S., SSA, México, Mexico
Franco F.:
U. de Epidemiología Clin., Hosp. General de México, SSA
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