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Published on: February 16, 2011
[Social inequities in the use of primary care services: a long way to go]
M A Muñoz Pérez1, E Mariscal Labrador, E Rubio Simón
1Area Básica de Salud Montornés-Montmeló, Institut Catalá de la Salut. 32013mam@comb.es
Objective:
To describe the relation between the main variables related with social inequality and the utilization of primary care services.
Methods:
Socio-demographic variables and the number of consultations were collected in a cross-sectional study.
Results:
264 subjects were interviewed. 66% of the population belonged to social classes IV and V. There was statistical signification between age and number of visits (p = 0.0014) and between number of visits and monoparental families (p = 0.01).
Conclusions:
Most of the attended population belonged to the low and middle socio-economic levels. The relationship between non-structured families and hyper-utilization and the relationship between age and hyper-utilization is confirmed.
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