Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Health care is exercised in health care facilities and other forms of health care. Primary care center is type of health care facilities that implement measures, mostly of primary care for population of all ages. The aim of this paper is to analyze health care of the elderly in primary care centers by the territorial parts of Serbia, settlement type, gender, age, education and wealthy state. The goal was the data analysis of the results of the extensive research survey conducted by the Institute of Public Health of Serbia. Results showed that older people often use primary health care services, and commonly used services are blood pressure measurement, the determination of sugar, fat and hemoglobin in blood and urine analysis. In relation to the territorial parts of Serbia the largest number of services provides health centers in Belgrade and Vojvodina, and the lowest in central Serbia. At the doctor's never been only 1.6% of the elderly, significantly higher in urban settlements, and the poorest men. Medical general practitioners visited 54.2%, and the dentists 16%. A large number of elderly in the last year used specialty services in the primary health center (41%), and much more from urban settlements, women and wealthy elderly. At the specialist have never been only about 11% of elderly patients. These examinations are usually undertaken without waiting or queuing up to seven days. So the internist done about 56% examination without waiting. Emergency medical assistance has never used 72.55 elderly, and last year was used by 8.6%. The arrival of the teams most often waited up to ten minutes, and just over 30 minutes in 8% of cases. Old people are less frequently used services of private doctors, and are mostly used services dentists and doctors of general medicine, because there is no waiting and they are considered to provide better services.
Source: Zdravstvena zastita
DOI: 10.5937/zz0906065o
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3010804150