2018
DOI: 10.7866/hpe-rpe.18.4.2
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Gasto público en visitas a servicios sanitarios ocasionados por los hábitos de alimentación de personas mayores

Abstract: Los hábitos de alimentación en las personas mayores constituyen un factor a tener en cuenta a la hora de analizar la calidad de vida. El objetivo del presente trabajo es valorar los costes sanitarios derivados de las visitas a servicios de salud y hospitalizaciones ocasionados por los hábitos de alimentación de las personas mayores. Para ello se utilizó la Encuesta Europea de Salud en España de 2014, y a través de diferentes modelos se observa la asociación estadísticamente significativa entre el número de vis… Show more

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“…Nutrition also has an impact on muscular tone. The presence of malnutrition or nutritional risk also enhances the risk of hospitalization [ 58 ] and increases healthcare expenditure [ 59 , 60 ]. In our study, this may not be especially significant as, broadly speaking, in the countries analyzed, there is not a sufficient deficit in any of the categories described or whose impact is significant enough to increase hospitalization rates.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nutrition also has an impact on muscular tone. The presence of malnutrition or nutritional risk also enhances the risk of hospitalization [ 58 ] and increases healthcare expenditure [ 59 , 60 ]. In our study, this may not be especially significant as, broadly speaking, in the countries analyzed, there is not a sufficient deficit in any of the categories described or whose impact is significant enough to increase hospitalization rates.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Determinants of health expenditure include the level of income, the age structure of the population [ 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 ], the form of health financing (whether public or private), technological innovation [ 58 , 59 ], population density [ 60 ], the level of the environment [ 61 ], the degree of development of cities, the health coverage of the foreign population [ 62 ] and the number of doctors per person [ 58 ]. Widespread ideas in recent studies highlight the suggestions made to policy planners to maximise public health benefits and environmental quality, which are closely related to sustainable GDP growth.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%