title: [Explanatory models on the utilization of health services: a review and analysis].
abstract: The present article begins with a conceptual review of the models which have been developed for the analysis of health services utilization. The models are: epidemiological, psychosocial, sociological and economic. The stages and/or determining factors in the procedure of health services use, are described and a cross study is made with each model by means of a contingency matrix. The starting point for the search of a model that enables (in a complete and unisolated way) the identification of the determinant factors in health service use is the cross analysis of the models under investigation. This cross analysis is also taken as a conceptual framework of reference in the unfolding investigation.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arredondo
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Meléndez
mesh_terms: D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D017059:Models, Econometric; D008960:Models, Psychological; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012961:Sociology
vernacular_title: Modelos explicativos sobre la utilización de servicios de salud: revisión y análisis.