Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study
This study, conducted in a Finnish city, examined whether a long-lasting observed trend in Finnish primary health care, namely, a decreasing rate of office-hour visits to general practitioners (GPs), would lead to reduced services for specific gender, diagnosis or age groups. This was an observation...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/341142 2024-01-07T09:42:41+01:00 Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study Kauppila, Timo Liedes-Kauppila, Marja Lehto, Mika Mustonen, Katri Rahkonen, Ossi Raina, Marko Heikkinen, Anna M. Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care HUS Head and Neck Center Department of Public Health University of Helsinki Clinicum Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases 2022-02-28T16:13:04Z 7 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/341142 eng eng International Union for Circumpolar Health 10.1080/22423982.2022.2033405 Kauppila , T , Liedes-Kauppila , M , Lehto , M , Mustonen , K , Rahkonen , O , Raina , M & Heikkinen , A M 2022 , ' Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21 st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study ' , International Journal of Circumpolar Health , vol. 81 , no. 1 , 2033405 . https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2022.2033405 ORCID: /0000-0002-7202-3274/work/109261227 ORCID: /0000-0003-3252-192X/work/109266058 35147493 85124499517 0c74c379-8f15-48f7-9401-5253a1e98b64 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/341142 000754071800001 cc_by_nc openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Community health centres mortality practice management primary health care PRIMARY-CARE REASONS 3121 General medicine internal medicine and other clinical medicine Article publishedVersion 2022 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:01:15Z This study, conducted in a Finnish city, examined whether a long-lasting observed trend in Finnish primary health care, namely, a decreasing rate of office-hour visits to general practitioners (GPs), would lead to reduced services for specific gender, diagnosis or age groups. This was an observational retrospective follow-up study. The annual number of visits to office-hour primary care GPs in different gender, diagnosis and age groups was recorded during a 13-year follow-up period. The effect of the decreasing visit rate on the annual mortality rate in different age and gender groups was also studied. The total number of monthly visits to office-hour GPs decreased slowly over the whole study period. This decrease was stronger in women and older people. The proportion of recorded infectious diseases (Groups A and J and especially diagnoses related to infections of respiratory airways) decreased. Proportions of recorded chronic diseases increased (Group I, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and osteoarthrosis) during the follow-up. The annual rate of visits to office-hour GP/per GP decreased. There was a decrease in the mortality in two of the age groups (20-64, 65+ years) and no change in the youngest population (0-19 years). The decrease in the office-hours GP activity does not seem to increase mortality either. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Circumpolar Health International Journal of Circumpolar Health HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository International Journal of Circumpolar Health 81 1 |
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Community health centres mortality practice management primary health care PRIMARY-CARE REASONS 3121 General medicine internal medicine and other clinical medicine Kauppila, Timo Liedes-Kauppila, Marja Lehto, Mika Mustonen, Katri Rahkonen, Ossi Raina, Marko Heikkinen, Anna M. Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study |
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This study, conducted in a Finnish city, examined whether a long-lasting observed trend in Finnish primary health care, namely, a decreasing rate of office-hour visits to general practitioners (GPs), would lead to reduced services for specific gender, diagnosis or age groups. This was an observational retrospective follow-up study. The annual number of visits to office-hour primary care GPs in different gender, diagnosis and age groups was recorded during a 13-year follow-up period. The effect of the decreasing visit rate on the annual mortality rate in different age and gender groups was also studied. The total number of monthly visits to office-hour GPs decreased slowly over the whole study period. This decrease was stronger in women and older people. The proportion of recorded infectious diseases (Groups A and J and especially diagnoses related to infections of respiratory airways) decreased. Proportions of recorded chronic diseases increased (Group I, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and osteoarthrosis) during the follow-up. The annual rate of visits to office-hour GP/per GP decreased. There was a decrease in the mortality in two of the age groups (20-64, 65+ years) and no change in the youngest population (0-19 years). The decrease in the office-hours GP activity does not seem to increase mortality either. Peer reviewed |
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Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care HUS Head and Neck Center Department of Public Health University of Helsinki Clinicum Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases |
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Kauppila, Timo Liedes-Kauppila, Marja Lehto, Mika Mustonen, Katri Rahkonen, Ossi Raina, Marko Heikkinen, Anna M. |
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Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study |
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Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study |
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Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study |
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Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study |
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Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study |
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development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study |
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10.1080/22423982.2022.2033405 Kauppila , T , Liedes-Kauppila , M , Lehto , M , Mustonen , K , Rahkonen , O , Raina , M & Heikkinen , A M 2022 , ' Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21 st century : a 13-year longitudinal follow-up study ' , International Journal of Circumpolar Health , vol. 81 , no. 1 , 2033405 . https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2022.2033405 ORCID: /0000-0002-7202-3274/work/109261227 ORCID: /0000-0003-3252-192X/work/109266058 35147493 85124499517 0c74c379-8f15-48f7-9401-5253a1e98b64 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/341142 000754071800001 |
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