Main causes of because the mexican population procrastina in your health

Abstract

Introduction. Introduction: The procrastination in health is a risk factor for both acute and chronic degenerative diseases, as well as complications arise in general.

Objective: To identify the main causes of pro­crastination in health of the Mexican population.

Methodology: This study was quantitative de­scriptive, the unit of observation was patients and people who came even from Mexico City and in open population tertiary hospital, sampling was not probabilistic. A questionnaire was applied indifferent reagents 14 "scale of procrastination in health care".

Results: The total sample was 317 people (200 in a hospital and open population 117). 58% corre­sponded to females, 56% were between 18 and 39 years old. The 39% have popular insurance, 16% have none. The 99.3% procrastina in your health. Were the main causes of procrastination: the 64% delayed going to the doctor because services are very slow, 14% concerned that not they solve their disease, these 42% complements it with home rem­edies; 17% does not end treatment for economic reasons; the 38% assists when you already have a complication. 50% served at last moment by not having time for your attention; 27% by lose much time to be served, 25% for not having money and 20% gives you fear know what they have.

Conclusions: Procrastination in health is largely due to the lack of quality of care in health services as time waiting, resolution of disease and treatment accessibility.