[Program of care of disabled patients at a health center].
OBJECTIVE
To systematise primary attention to the disabled by means of a programme of specific action. To create a Risk Map for the problem of "abandonment of the elderly disabled".


METHODS
Retrospective descriptive study. SITE. El Palo Health Centre (Málaga). First two years of the programme (1989-1991).


METHODS
Patients with physical and/or mental disability attending to Centre to obtain services. The basic Primary Attention Team. Key informants, the Voluntary Social service.


METHODS
Activities: Recruitment strategies: Programme of Planned Home Visits (Subscribers' Register, Individualised Care Plan), Risk Map of Basic Area.


RESULTS
142 patients were included in the first year, and 203 in the second year, carrying out 4.66 and 5.95 programmed visits per patient per year, respectively. The Risk Map defined 28 areas ranked according to risk.
Espinosa
J M
JM
Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria de Málaga, Centro de Salud El Palo.
Burgos
M L
ML
Muñoz Cobos
F
F
Salazar
J A
JA
D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016730:Program Development; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Programa de atención a pacientes incapacitados en un centro de salud.