[Medical care in Santiago, 1993].

Abstract:

:Results of morbidity and medical care surveys performed in Santiago in 1993-94 are presented in this paper. The study has been done in an aleatory population sample of 4,700 people coming from 1,000 dwellings. Main results are as following: The Health National Fund (FONASA) is the most important financing medical care's agency in Santiago (49% out of total population). A majority of medical services are given in private offices or clinics. Medical care systems show significant differences among the studied city districts. A significant direct correlation between people's income and private practice is noticed. One half of acute diseases had medical care and the other half used self care practices; the proportion of medical care is 29% in the case of chronic disease patients. National Health Service eligible people show a significant higher morbidity rate and medical consultation rate than other groups. Lack of medical care mainly depends on low severity of illness episodes or lack of symptoms in chronic disease conditions. In 12% out of total cases, lack of medical care was due to problems in the medical care systems. The quality of care was judged "good or excellent" by 82% of the people, "fair" by 9%, and "bad or deficient" by the remaining 8%. Personal expenditures due to health care are high, one third depending on medical care and two thirds on dental care. In the case of medical care the reasons for expenditures are linked to chronic diseases (60%), acute diseases (28%), injuries and health examinations (15%). Main activities causing personal disbursements are the purchase of drugs (44%), medical visits (30%), laboratory tests (13%) and hospital charges (7%).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

Rev Med Chil

journal_title

Revista medica de Chile

authors

Medina E,Kaempffer AM,Cornejo E,Hernández E,Wall V

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-01-01 00:00:00

pages

108-15

issue

1

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0034-9887

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0717-6163

journal_volume

123

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