Comparative analysis between prevention and treatment costs for gestational diabetes mellitus in primary and tertiaryhealth care in a city in Southern Brazil/Analise comparativa entre os custos de prevencao e tratamento do diabetes mellitus gestacional na assistencia a saude primaria e terciaria em uma cidade do Sul do Brasil

Objective: The present study's purpose is to evaluate the economic context in which the Brazilian public health system, the only universal public health system with more than 200 million users, stands out. This evaluation will be made through the lens of the execution of gestational health care...

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Published inJornal Brasileiro de economia da saúde Vol. 13; no. 1; p. 21
Main Authors Reichenbach, Ricardo, dos Reis, Yasmin Cristina Ricardo, Gullo, Maria Carolina Rosa, Madi, Jose Mauro, Rahmi, Rosa Maria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Doctor Press Editora Cientifica 01.04.2021
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Summary:Objective: The present study's purpose is to evaluate the economic context in which the Brazilian public health system, the only universal public health system with more than 200 million users, stands out. This evaluation will be made through the lens of the execution of gestational health care services in a city of approximately 500 thousand inhabitants in southern Brazil. The care costs of patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) will be compared to those of patients without GDM, analyzing the different economic valuation methods. And lastly, there was an intent to explore the generated costs in the context of economic valuation applied to health to comprehend better the complexity of the union of the financial and health areas to optimize the services offered. Methods: For the economic context in health, an analysis of health investments was performed through the Transparency Portal. The costs involved in preventing GDM were raised by the Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS) table of procedures performed ordinarily in low-risk pregnancies. The expenses involved in DMG patients were increased at the High-Risk Pregnancy and Fetal Medicine Clinic of DMG patients. Results: Preventing GDM is more cost-effective, cost-minimizing, and cost-useful than treating patients diagnosed with GDM. Conclusion: The result is an extremely interesting cost-opportunity, given the economic context in which it is presented. Keywords diabetes mellitus gestational, cost allocation, primary health care, secondary care Objetivo: O presente estudo tem como objetivo avaliar o contexto economico em que se encontra o sistema publico de saude brasileiro, unico sistema publico universal de saude com mais de 200 milhoes de usuarios. Essa avaliacao sera feita sob a otica da execucao de servicos de saude gestacional em um municipio de aproximadamente 500 mil habitantes no Sul do Brasil. Os custos assistenciais de pacientes com diabetes mellitus gestacional (DMG) serao comparados aos de pacientes sem DMG, analisando os diferentes metodos de valoracao economica. Tambem serao analisados os custos gerados no contexto da valoracao economica aplicada a saude para uma melhor compreensao da complexidade da uniao das areas economica e da saude com o objetivo de otimizar os servicos oferecidos. Metodos: Para a contextualizacao economica em saude, foi feita a analise dos investimentos em saude pelo Portal da Transparencia. Os custos envolvidos na prevencao da DMG foram levantados pela tabela de procedimentos realizados ordinariamente em gestacoes de baixo risco do Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS). Os custos envolvidos em pacientes com DMG foram levantados no Ambulatorio de Gestacao de Alto Risco e Medicina Fetal de pacientes com DMG. Resultados: Prevenir o DMG apresenta maiores custo-beneficio, custo-efetividade, custo-minimizacao e custo-utilidade em comparacao com o tratamento das pacientes com o diagnostico de DMG. Conclusao: O resultado e um custo-oportunidade extremamente interessante, dado o contexto economico em que se apresenta. Palavras-chave: diabetes mellitus gestacional, alocacao de custos, atencao primaria a saude, atencao secundaria
ISSN:2175-2095
DOI:10.21115/JBES.v13.n1.p21-30