Vulnerabilidade social, individual, programática e saúde percebida em idosos de Campinas

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

25/11/2011

RESUMO

Foundation: The social cultural and economical conditions interact with the biological processes, throughout the whole life, being able to result in protection or vulnerability at elderly age. Objectives: Describe and analyze the vulnerability in community elders, as far as social conditions (gender, age, and income), individuals (number of diseases, functional incapability, perceived social support and self-reported health) and programmatic (SUS-dependency index, social vulnerability index and access to health and dental care) and analyze the relative influence on these conditions on self-reported health of the least aged. Methods: In the context of the study about fragility, 668 elders participated recruited at home without cognitive impairment suggestive of mental illness, residents of 88 urban sectors randomly chosen among the existing 832 in Campinas, SP. They were interviewed only once for data collection done at community centers, along with questionnaire and self-reported scales. Results: Of all participants, 68% were women, with ages between 65 and 90, with an average between 72.28 +- 5.41 years of age, the family income ranged from 0 to 57.83 minimum wages and the average were between 4.72 +- 5.28 minimum wages. Just about 60% of all elderly lived in regions of lesser social vulnerability and with lesser dependency on public health care. Only 11 % showed no disease. The perceived social support and self-reported health were strongly positive. The multi-various analyzes showed that self-reported health a smaller number of diseases, signs and symptoms, better social support and the use of private dental care. Conclusion: The physical decline in social support can magnify the search for health care, especially for elderly at lower economic class that suffered the effect of deficiency in the access of medical and dental care. These factors affect the self perception of elderly health, when positive, can act as protectors of self reported health

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velhice acesso aos serviços de saúde fatores socioeconomicos comorbidade capacidade funcional aging health services accessibility comorbidities functional ability socioeconomic factors

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