Cultura de los Cuidados (Aug 2015)

Study of utilization of different Hospital Services by foreign patients in Hospital General Universitario de Alicante (HGUA) (1st January 2011-30th June 2014)

  • Miguel Ángel Fernández Molina,
  • Rosa Maria Albert Sanchis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14198/cuid.2015.42.10
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 42
pp. 101 – 127

Abstract

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This article examines the importance of the current crisis and its impact on the health of the registered foreign population as a destabilizing demographic vector. It specifically examines the utilization by patients born abroad of different hospital services of the Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, considering the inter-group differences, which acquire, along with age, a decisive role with regard to the type of pathologies afflicting this group, and therefore, its cost in euros. The results obtained allow comparability over time and could be extrapolated to the rest of the Spanish territory.

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