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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
[The association between self-rated health and health care utilization in retired]
F Aloísio Pimenta1, Carlos Santos Amaral, Henrique Da Gama Torres
1Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Objective:
This article attests the association between self-rated health and health care utilization in a retired population by a narrative review.
Method:
A systematic review was carried out from 1967 to 2007 to identify studies on self-rated health, in the databases MEDLINE, LILACS e SCIELO. The OVID software was used to Medline research. Contacts with experts were used. The key words retirement, self-rated health, health care utilization and narrative review were used in Portuguese, Spanish and English versions. Al the abstracts were analyzed, but only trials that associated self-rated health in retirement and health care utilization were fully analyzed.
Results:
Thirty one out of 443 abstracts were selected to be fully analyzed. Current data indicates that health deterioration, poor self-rated health and increased health care utilization are associated with early retirement, due to disability, but not with individuals who worked until retirement by age.
Conclusion:
Retirement is probably associated with increased public expenses and increased health care utilization in retired with a poor self-rated health.
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