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Table 2 Use of Healthcare Services, by study site

From: Equity in the delivery of community healthcare to older people: findings from 10/66 Dementia Research Group cross-sectional surveys in Latin America, China, India and Nigeria

  

Community Healthcare Services

  

Centres

n

Gov't Primary Care

Hospital outpatient

Private Doctor

Other Services

Traditional Healer

Any Community Medical Service*

Hospital Admission

Dentist

       

Crude prevalence

Standardised † prevalence (95% CI)

  

Cuba

MV† = 6

2944

1012

(34.4%)

659

(22.4%)

4

(0.1%)

189

(6.4%)

13

(0.4%)

1465

(49.9%)

50.4%

(48.7-52.2%)

62

(2.1%)

181 (6.2%)

Dominican Republic

MV = 2

2011

222

(11.0%)

453

(22.5%)

409

(20.4%)

35

(1.7%)

5

(0.3%)

960

(47.8%)

45.0%

(42.7-47.2%)

61

(3.0%)

87

(4.3%)

Puerto Rico

MV = 6

2008

198

(9.9%)

20

(1.0%)

1461

(72.8%)

8

(0.4%)

0

(0.0%)

1639

(81.9%)

79.8%

(78.0-81.6%)

107

(5.3%)

320

(16.0%)

Peru urban

MV = 1

1381

155

(11.2%)

451

(32.7%)

147

(10.7%)

39

(2.8%)

5

(0.4%)

670

(48.6%)

48.1%

(45.6-50.6%)

31

(2.2%)

90

(6.5%)

Peru rural

MV = 1

552

66

(12.0%)

90

(16.3%)

13

(2.4%)

5

(0.9%)

5

(0.9%)

155

(28.1%)

29.3%

(25.7-32.9%)

3

(0.5%)

12

(2.2%)

Venezuela

MV = 33

1965

443

(22.9%)

450

(23.3%)

574

(29.7%)

147

(7.6%)

14

(0.7%)

1211

(62.7%)

60.3%

(58.1-62.5%)

77

(4.0%)

156

(8.1%)

Mexico urban

MV = 0

1003

362

(36.1%)

259

(25.8%)

197

(19.6%)

60

(6.0%)

17

(1.7%)

721

(71.9%)

70.2%

(67.5-72.9%)

22

(2.2%)

118

(11.8%)

Mexico rural

MV = 0

1000

410

(41.0%)

111

(11.1%)

186

(18.6%)

45

(4.5%)

33

(3.3%)

646

(64.6%)

63.3%

(60.4-66.2%)

16

(1.6%)

36

(3.6%)

China urban

MV = 0

1160

242

(20.9%)

271

(23.4%)

1

(0.1%)

2

(0.2%)

3

(0.3%)

448

(38.6%)

32.4%

(29.9-34.8%)

28

(2.4%)

13

(1.1%)

China rural

MV = 0

1002

38

(3.8%)

22

(2.2%)

3

(0.3%)

1

(0.1%)

0

(0.0%)

61

(6.1%)

8.7%

(6.3-11.1%)

5

(0.5%)

0

(0.0%)

India urban

MV = 1

1005

42

(4.2%)

124

(12.3%)

417

(41.5%)

8

(0.8%)

3

(0.3%)

566

(56.4%)

61.5%

(58.7-64.3%)

10

(1.0%)

3

(0.3%)

India rural

MV = 0

999

185

(18.5%)

307

(30.7%)

473

(47.3%)

185

(18.5%)

82

(8.2%)

677

(67.8%)

61.1%

(57.5-64.7%)

17

(1.7%)

86

(8.6%)

Nigeria

MV = 20

914

25

(2.7%)

108

(12.1%)

75

(8.4%)

41

(4.6%)

83

(9.3%)

272

(30.4%)

42.5%

(37.9-47.2%)

40

(4.5%)

6

(0.7%)

  1. * Defined as any reported use in the three months prior to the survey of government primary care, hospital outpatient, private doctor, traditional healer and other community medical services
  2. † Direct standardisation (using the entire pooled sample as the external standard population) for the effects of age group, sex, number of physical impairments, and dementia and depression diagnoses
  3. † MV = Number of missing values
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