Structural social determinants and catastrophic illnesses in municipalities in the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca

• Main Authors: Luis Miguel Tovar Cuevas, Fernando Arteaga Suárez
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2014
• Subjects: Enfermedad catastrófica; factores socioeconómicos; estudios ecológicos; neoplasias; VIH; fallo renal crónico; Colombia; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Dane
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/67ee0294f47945b3b6258a5ce63ef731

OBJECTIVE: To explore possible associations between self-reported prevalence of catastrophic illnesses such as chronic renal failure, HIV/AIDS and cancer and a set of structural social determinants. METHODS: Ecological study using data from the 2005 Population Census conducted by the National Admini...