Perfil de morbidade e gastos hospitalares com idosos no Paraná, Brasil, entre 2008 e 2012

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Growth in the elderly population has increased both the demand for health services and healthcare expenses, with relevant consequences for economic stability. The current study aimed to analyze the morbidity profile and hospital expenses with elderly patients in relation to socioeconomic and demographic conditions in Paraná State, Brazil, from 2008 to 2012, applying principal components analysis and groupings. Regions with higher and lower economic and human development showed high prevalence of hospitalizations and costs pertaining to the circulatory and respiratory systems and cardiac diseases for males and females. In regions with intermediary development, diseases of the nervous system in men and of the circulatory system in women had the highest morbidity and hospital expenses. Thus, measures for prevention and health promotion in this elderly population should be targeted to regional investigations.

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Kernkamp, C. da L., Costa, C. K. F., Massuda, E. M., Silva, E. S., Yamaguchi, M. U., & Bernuci, M. P. (2016). Perfil de morbidade e gastos hospitalares com idosos no Paraná, Brasil, entre 2008 e 2012. Cadernos de Saude Publica, 32(7). https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00044115

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