1. Οι επιπτώσεις της περιβαλλοντικής κρίσης στις νοσοκομειακές και εξωνοσοκομειακές δαπάνες υγείας: Συστηματική ανασκόπηση.
- Author
-
Karagkouni, I., Galanis, P., and Kaitelidou, D.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL health ,HOSPITALS & economics ,OUTPATIENT services in hospitals ,ENVIRONMENTAL exposure ,AIR pollution ,CINAHL database ,CLIMATE change ,HEALTH ,MEDICAL care costs ,MEDLINE ,ONLINE information services ,WATER pollution ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,BIBLIOGRAPHIC databases ,PSYCHOLOGY ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
AIM: To investigate the impact of environmental crisis on hospital and outpatient health expenditures and more specifically to estimate the effect of climate change, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution and noise pollution in hospital health expenditures and outpatient health expenditures. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A systematic literature review was conducted on PubMed, Scopus, Cinahl and Science Direct and included papers that have published until to June 2015 in English. We used the following key-words: climate change, air pollution, water pollution, ground pollution, noise pollution, health care expenditures, hospital health expenditures and outpatient health expenditures. RESULTS: Only 30 of the published scientific papers met the criteria for inclusion in this review. Twenty-one studies assessed the impact of the environmental crisis on hospital health expenditures and 9 assessed the impact on outpatient health expenditures. We found that components of the environmental crisis affect people's demand for primary and secondary health care services. CONCLUSIONS: The environmental crisis affects greatly in a direct way the health care expenditures globally, since it is responsible for a great number of hospital admissions, visits in hospitals' emergency departments and outpatient visits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2016