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Table 4 Institutional Characteristics of Health Services Surveyed*.

From: The variability and predictors of quality of AIDS care services in Brazil

Characteristic

No (%)

State

 

Ceará

3 (1.0)

Maranhão

4 (1.2)

Pará

5 (1.5)

Mato Grosso do Sul

12 (3.7)

Rio Grande do Sul

34 (10.6)

Rio de Janeiro

94 (29.2)

São Paulo

170 (52.8)

No of inhabitants of the municipality**

 

> 400,000 inhabitants

119 (36.96)

< 400,000 inhabitants

203 (66.04)

N° of patients

 

> 500

58 (18.0)

101–500

107 (33.2)

< 100

157 (48.8)

Type of service

 

Non-exclusive

278 (86.34)

Exclusively HIV/AIDS and STD

42 (13.0)

Duration of delivering services

 

> 5 years

210 (65.2)

≤ 5 years

112 (34.78)

  1. * Health service managers from eleven services from state of Rio Grande do Sul, two from Rio de Janeiro, and one from Sao Paulo failed to respond. The average of institutional characteristics of non-respondents from Rio Grande do Sul did not differ from the respondents.
  2. ** Source: The Brazilian Institute of Geographic and Statistics (IBGE)