title: [Healthcare usage by elderly people].
abstract: The newest demographic changes in the world and in our country show slow population increase and accelerated growth of elderly population. Apart from this growth of elderly population today we are experiencing increase in life expectancy. Our goal is to present socioeconomic status, usage of health services and patients satisfaction with those services. Our research includes 120 persons older than 65 years living in rural areas of Vares municipality. The data was collected in the period of 01/04/2007 to 01/05/2007. Municipality register provided us with data for elderly population using random sampling method. Examination was carried out using questionnaire papers especially formulated for our research. Statistical analysis includes elements of descriptive statistics X2 and the test of correlation; results with p<05 will be used in our research. Research variables are: sex, age, education level, salary, profession before retirement, number of visits to MD as well to a specialist, days spent in hospital and overall satisfaction with health care services.
authors.affiliation: Institut za socijalnu medicinu, Medicinski fakultet u Sarajevu, BiH. abdz@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Amela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dzubur
authors.forename: Morana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brkljacić
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kevrić
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D005260:Female; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors