Observational studyBMC women's health2014
Primary health care use from the perspective of gender and morbidity burden.
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- Health complaints in individual visiting primary health care: population-based national electronic health records of Iran.BMC health services research · 2022Article
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- Socioeconomic Inequalities in Visits to the Dentist to Receive Professionally Applied Topical Fluoride in a Developing Country.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Short-term effectiveness of a culturally tailored educational intervention on foot self-care among type 2 diabetes patients in Morocco.Journal of clinical & translational endocrinology · 2017Article
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- Measuring multimorbidity in a working population: the effect on incident sickness absence.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2016Article
- Prevalence and correlates of probable common mental disorders in a population with high prevalence of HIV in Zimbabwe.BMC psychiatry · 2016Article
- Prevalence and Patterns of Health Care Use Among Poor Older People Under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Program in the Atwima Nwabiagya District of Ghana.Gerontology & geriatric medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundSex and gender can interact to contribute to differences in morbidity and mortality between men and women. To detect such differences is an important issue for health policy planners when designing programmes for the provision of healthcare services for the whole population. Our aim was to study differences between men and women in the use of Primary Health Care (PHC) resources, taking into account age and morbidity burden.
methodsAn observational retrospective study was carried out using the information gathered in electronic medical records from 79,809 adult patients who attended a PHC centre at least once in 2008. The ACG® System was used to quantify the morbidity burden of patients. Poisson regression models were applied to analyse differences in the number of visits to the PHC centre by men and women.
resultsMorbidity burden was significantly higher in women of all age groups. The gross number of visits to the PHC centre was also higher for women in all age groups. However, when adjusting by age and morbidity burden, we did not find a higher utilization by women compared to men. For high levels of morbidity burden, the attendance by men was even significantly higher.
conclusionsThe overall higher use of PHC by women seems to be associated with their higher morbidity burden. The interaction between biology and socially constructed roles could also underlie this higher use by women, and is therefore an area that deserves further in-depth research.
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