Hospital production and inverse care law in Argentina

This paper studies the production of outpatient and inpatient care in public hospitals in Argentina. This is a descriptive and correlational study that uses official data analyzed through multivariated statistical techniques and suggests three related facts. First, health care is not geographically...

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Autores principales: Tafani, Roberto, Gaspio, N., Acevedo, G.
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/7318
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spelling I10-R360-article-73182025-04-03T12:07:05Z Hospital production and inverse care law in Argentina Producción hospitalaria y ley de cuidados inversos en Argentina Tafani, Roberto Gaspio, N. Acevedo, G. hospital production inverse care producción hospitalaria Cuidados inversos This paper studies the production of outpatient and inpatient care in public hospitals in Argentina. This is a descriptive and correlational study that uses official data analyzed through multivariated statistical techniques and suggests three related facts. First, health care is not geographically homogeneous. Second, geographic per capita income per capita is important for outpatient care and age population pyramid in inpatient care. Third, the hypothesis stating that individuals with greater needs use less health care is confirmed. Thus, the inverse health care law rules in Argentina. Este trabajo estudia la producción de consultas e internaciones en los hospitales públicos de Argentina. Es un estudio de alcance descriptivo y correlacional. Utiliza datos oficiales que se analizan mediante técnicas estadísticas multivariantes y sugiere tres hechos relacionados. Primero que la atención médica no es territorialmente homogénea. Segundo destaca la importancia del ingreso geográfico por cápita para el consumo de consultas y de la pirámide etárea poblacional en la internación. Tercero corrobora la hipótesis de que quienes más necesidades tienen consumen menos atención médica. Confirma así que en el país impera la ley de cuidados inversos. Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC 2014-04-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/7318 10.31052/1853.1180.v10.n2.7318 Revista de Salud Pública; Vol. 10 Núm. 2 (2006); 8-30 1852-9429 1853-1180 10.31052/1853.1180.v10.n2 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/7318/8406 Derechos de autor 1969 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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topic hospital production
inverse care
producción hospitalaria
Cuidados inversos
spellingShingle hospital production
inverse care
producción hospitalaria
Cuidados inversos
Tafani, Roberto
Gaspio, N.
Acevedo, G.
Hospital production and inverse care law in Argentina
topic_facet hospital production
inverse care
producción hospitalaria
Cuidados inversos
author Tafani, Roberto
Gaspio, N.
Acevedo, G.
author_facet Tafani, Roberto
Gaspio, N.
Acevedo, G.
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title Hospital production and inverse care law in Argentina
title_short Hospital production and inverse care law in Argentina
title_full Hospital production and inverse care law in Argentina
title_fullStr Hospital production and inverse care law in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Hospital production and inverse care law in Argentina
title_sort hospital production and inverse care law in argentina
description This paper studies the production of outpatient and inpatient care in public hospitals in Argentina. This is a descriptive and correlational study that uses official data analyzed through multivariated statistical techniques and suggests three related facts. First, health care is not geographically homogeneous. Second, geographic per capita income per capita is important for outpatient care and age population pyramid in inpatient care. Third, the hypothesis stating that individuals with greater needs use less health care is confirmed. Thus, the inverse health care law rules in Argentina.
publisher Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC
publishDate 2014
url https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/7318
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