Nghiên cứu một số đặc điểm và sử dụng dịch vụ khám chữa bệnh của người cao tuổi tại một số trạm y tế phường thuộc thành phố Huế

Obiectives: To determine some of characteristics, disease and use of health care services of the elderly at some wards health centers of the dty of Hue city in 2012. Methods: cross description. Sample sizes: 776 elderty were randomly selected in some wards of Hue city. Results: The elderly have wife (husband) were high percentage (70.1 percent), widowed were 25.8 percent and only 4.1 percent were single, most of them living with their children and relative (80.2 percent), live alone were 9 percent and 10.8 percent live with his wife (or her husband). The poor households accounted for 7.7 percent and non-poor were 79.4 percent. Disease status: musculoskeletal accounted for 48.2 percent, circulatory 41.5 percent, ENT, eye, dental were 28.4 percent, gastrointestinal 20.4 percent, endocrine and metabolism 14.4 percent, neurological 12.4 percent, respiratory 11.6 percent, urinary system 6.7 percent and 18.6 percent of them did not know their disease status. Research in past one month found 64.2 percent of the elderly had illness, among them had 20.9 percent seek medical care at ward health centers, 13.6 percent in other medical facilities and 57.4 percent bough drugs by themselves. The reasons did not visit ward health centers included: Nobody help them (42 percent), mild disease (28.7 percent), low quality of examination (17.2 percent) and wait a long time (12.1 percent) and 63.1 percent were not consulted health care. Conclusion: The elderly in Hue city have high proportion living with their families, the. prevalence of musculoskeletal and circulatory diseases were the highest; the incidence in past one month was high, but the rate of use heath care services at ward health centers was low.