TY - JOUR
T1 - Time trend of lack of access to health services in Brazil, 1998-2013
AU - Nunes, Bruno Pereira
AU - Flores, Thaynã Ramos
AU - Garcia, Leila Posenato
AU - Chiavegatto, Alexandre Dias Porto
AU - Thumé, Elaine
AU - Facchini, Luiz Augusto
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - OBJECTIVE: to analyze the time trend on the demand and lack of access to public health services in Brazil. METHODS: this is a panel of cross-sectional studies with data of the National Household Sample Survey (1998, 2003, 2008) and the National Health Survey (2013); the prevalence of demand and lack of access within the fifteen days prior to the survey was estimated; Poisson regression was used for trend analysis. RESULTS: the demand for health services increased from 13.0% (95%CI 12.3;13.7), in 1998, to 15.0% (95%CI 14.5;15.4), in 2013; the lack of access remained stable, being of 3.7% (95%CI 3.2;4.2) in 1998 and 4.5% (95%CI 4.0;5.0) in 2013. CONCLUSIONS: the increase in demand for health services and the stability in the lack of access indicate improvements in the Brazilian public health system performance; additional efforts are required to ensure universal access to public health services in Brazil.
AB - OBJECTIVE: to analyze the time trend on the demand and lack of access to public health services in Brazil. METHODS: this is a panel of cross-sectional studies with data of the National Household Sample Survey (1998, 2003, 2008) and the National Health Survey (2013); the prevalence of demand and lack of access within the fifteen days prior to the survey was estimated; Poisson regression was used for trend analysis. RESULTS: the demand for health services increased from 13.0% (95%CI 12.3;13.7), in 1998, to 15.0% (95%CI 14.5;15.4), in 2013; the lack of access remained stable, being of 3.7% (95%CI 3.2;4.2) in 1998 and 4.5% (95%CI 4.0;5.0) in 2013. CONCLUSIONS: the increase in demand for health services and the stability in the lack of access indicate improvements in the Brazilian public health system performance; additional efforts are required to ensure universal access to public health services in Brazil.
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U2 - 10.5123/S1679-49742016000400011
DO - 10.5123/S1679-49742016000400011
M3 - Article
C2 - 27869971
AN - SCOPUS:85025818349
SN - 1679-4974
VL - 25
SP - 777
EP - 787
JO - Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil
JF - Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil
IS - 4
ER -