The Illness Patterns and Their Costs Among Hospitalized Elderly Covered by Medical Service Insurance Organization, in Damghan\'s Hospitals, in Year of 2005-2006
Objectives: The increase of life expectancy, in spite of its satisfactory and hopeful impressions, has resulted to some problems and difficulties, in the last years of life, particularly with regard to the health, illness, and costs of services of elderly populations. In literature focused on epidem...
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| description | Objectives: The increase of life expectancy, in spite of its satisfactory and hopeful impressions, has resulted to some problems and difficulties, in the last years of life, particularly with regard to the health, illness, and costs of services of elderly populations. In literature focused on epidemiologic transition, the change on patterns of disease widely discussed. But there is a lack for a detailed analysis to clarify the priorities of providing and consuming services in relation to a specific cronic illnesses and socio-economic and demographic characteristics of service users. For this purpose, and in order to identify the indications of epidemiologic transition, case studies and surveys are needed. The present study mainly focus on this goal to identify which services are used by which groups of elderly population, and on what costs?
Methods & Materials: This study conducted in Damghan city in Semnan province. All patients over 60 years old, covered by Medical Services Insurance Organization (MSIO), hospitalized in Damghan>s hospitals (2 hospitals), during year 2006, selected as study population. Medical records of the study population reviewed and analysed.
Results: Findings revealed that heart disease and blood system disfunctionning, was the major cause of hospitalization.
Conclusion: The most frequent surgeries conducted for Catarakt , and the highest cost belonged to psychology and psychiatrist services. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b2c0e5e6410e49a4b49c8da2ac145e582023-09-02T08:22:20ZfasUniversity of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation SciencesSālmand1735-806X1735-806X2007-07-0122252262The Illness Patterns and Their Costs Among Hospitalized Elderly Covered by Medical Service Insurance Organization, in Damghan\'s Hospitals, in Year of 2005-2006Abolghasem Poor Reza0Majid Mir Mohammadkhani1Behrooz Pooragha2 Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Objectives: The increase of life expectancy, in spite of its satisfactory and hopeful impressions, has resulted to some problems and difficulties, in the last years of life, particularly with regard to the health, illness, and costs of services of elderly populations. In literature focused on epidemiologic transition, the change on patterns of disease widely discussed. But there is a lack for a detailed analysis to clarify the priorities of providing and consuming services in relation to a specific cronic illnesses and socio-economic and demographic characteristics of service users. For this purpose, and in order to identify the indications of epidemiologic transition, case studies and surveys are needed. The present study mainly focus on this goal to identify which services are used by which groups of elderly population, and on what costs? Methods & Materials: This study conducted in Damghan city in Semnan province. All patients over 60 years old, covered by Medical Services Insurance Organization (MSIO), hospitalized in Damghan>s hospitals (2 hospitals), during year 2006, selected as study population. Medical records of the study population reviewed and analysed. Results: Findings revealed that heart disease and blood system disfunctionning, was the major cause of hospitalization. Conclusion: The most frequent surgeries conducted for Catarakt , and the highest cost belonged to psychology and psychiatrist services.http://salmandj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1Hospitalized elderly Cost elderly Medical service insurance organization |
| spellingShingle | Abolghasem Poor Reza Majid Mir Mohammadkhani Behrooz Pooragha The Illness Patterns and Their Costs Among Hospitalized Elderly Covered by Medical Service Insurance Organization, in Damghan\'s Hospitals, in Year of 2005-2006 Sālmand Hospitalized elderly Cost elderly Medical service insurance organization |
| title | The Illness Patterns and Their Costs Among Hospitalized Elderly Covered by Medical Service Insurance Organization, in Damghan\'s Hospitals, in Year of 2005-2006 |
| title_full | The Illness Patterns and Their Costs Among Hospitalized Elderly Covered by Medical Service Insurance Organization, in Damghan\'s Hospitals, in Year of 2005-2006 |
| title_fullStr | The Illness Patterns and Their Costs Among Hospitalized Elderly Covered by Medical Service Insurance Organization, in Damghan\'s Hospitals, in Year of 2005-2006 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Illness Patterns and Their Costs Among Hospitalized Elderly Covered by Medical Service Insurance Organization, in Damghan\'s Hospitals, in Year of 2005-2006 |
| title_short | The Illness Patterns and Their Costs Among Hospitalized Elderly Covered by Medical Service Insurance Organization, in Damghan\'s Hospitals, in Year of 2005-2006 |
| title_sort | illness patterns and their costs among hospitalized elderly covered by medical service insurance organization in damghan s hospitals in year of 2005 2006 |
| topic | Hospitalized elderly Cost elderly Medical service insurance organization |
| url | http://salmandj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 |
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