[The utilization of Arizona medical services by residents of Mexico].
Arizona physicians practicing in the four counties bordering Mexico were surveyed regarding the use of their services by residents of Mexico. One hundred eighty-eight (79%) of the 239 respondents to the mail survey reported seeing at least one Mexican resident per week during 1988. Ninety-nine of these physicians (53%) practiced in Tucson; 89 (47%) practiced elsewhere in the four border counties. The mean number of Mexican resident patients seen per week was nine (9% of total) for border physicians and 5 (6% of total) for Tucson physicians. The most frequent responses from border physicians asked to list the most common health conditions of their Mexican resident patients were injury and poisoning (21%) and circulatory diseases (11%), while the most frequent responses of Tucson physicians were circulatory diseases (10%) and digestive diseases (9%). Problems and solutions in the border care health system are mainly related to quality of care and health care financing.
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Southwest Border Rural Health Research Center, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson 85716.
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D000328:Adult; D001130:Arizona; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Utilización de servicios médicos de Arizona por residentes de México.