title: [Cost per capita in outpatients by gender].
abstract: The objective of this study is to identify the annual cost per capita by gender in first level of attention. It is a cost study in Family Physician Units in Mexico. The information corresponded to the year of 2004 and the study divided in the use profile and cost attention. USE PROFILE OF SERVICES: it was studied 1,585 clinical registries of patients, use profile defined by average and attention reasons by department, gender and age group. COST ATTENTION: considered in American dollars it included fixed unit cost (departmentalization adjusted by productivity), variable unit cost (micro cost technical), department unite cost by type attention, and department unit cost by age and gender. The life expectancy was of 73 years for men and 78 for women. Three scenes were identified. The annual cost per capita is superior among woman [US$73.24 (IC 95% $11.38 - $197.49)] than in man [$ 53.11 (IC 95% 2.51 - 207.71)]. The conclusion found that in the first level of attention the cost per capita is greater in woman than in man.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica, Servicios de Salud Querétaro, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Querétaro de Arteaga, México. felibree@infosel.net.mx
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Villarreal-Ríos
authors.forename: Maribel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campos Esparza
authors.forename: Liliana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Galicia Rodríguez
authors.forename: Lidia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martínez González
authors.forename: Emma Rosa
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Vargas Daza
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torres Labra
authors.forename: Adolfo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patiño Vega
authors.forename: María Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Rivera Martínez
authors.forename: Raúl
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aparicio Rojas
authors.forename: Martín
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Juárez Durán
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult