2023-10-26 08:40:00
NHSO reveals “elderly people” receive treatment services at twice the rate of all age groups. On average, there were 6.33 outpatient visits/person/year, using care resources up to 1/3 of the entire system’s costs. Revealed that the most common disease is enlarged prostate. COPD Arrhythmia and cataracts in old age The highest proportion of elderly patients are on the gold card. Develop benefits and support services
On Oct. 26, Dr. Jadej Thamthatcharee, Secretary-General of the National Health Security Office (NHSO), said that Thailand is entering a completely aging society, with nearly 20 percent of the elderly aged 60 years and over. of the population, it is necessary to organize a support system Especially access to medical treatment and essential health services. In the past, NHSO has reviewed data on the elderly in the National Health Security System in fiscal year 2022 to be useful in considering public health problems in the elderly. Continuing to develop benefits and care systems, it was found that Thailand has a population of 66.98 million people, of whom 13.16 million or 19.65 percent are the elderly, 19.65 percent of whom have the highest number of gold patents, 2.10 million civil servant rights, and insurance rights. Society, 431,000 people, and medical treatment rights for 20,200,000 local government employees.
“Health care information in the Gold Card system for seniors aged 60 years and over has a rate of service use that is twice as high as that of all age groups. When looking at data on outpatient services, the average rate is 6.33 times/person/year. In the general age group, it will be 3.53 times/person/year. In 2022, there will be 63.96 million times, accounting for 38.22 percent of the number of outpatients. all age groups As for inpatients, the average is 0.22 times/person/year. In general, 0.13 times/person/year, with 2022 at 2.17 million times, accounting for 35 percent of patients in all age groups. The proportion of resources used to care for the elderly is one-third of the total system costs. For the year 2022 data only, there were 1.75 million elderly people receiving services, a total of 2.17 million times, and the number of hospital treatment days was 11.43 million, while the number of services received by all age groups was 5.41 million, a total of 6.20 million times. Sleep days: 32.56 million sleep days,” Dr. Jadet said.
Dr. Jadet said that the treatment information that the elderly receive the most services is The top three outpatient groups are high blood pressure, 8.41 million times, diabetes, 4.73 million times, and chronic kidney failure, 910,000 times. The top three inpatients are viral pneumonia, 135,000 times, and congestive heart failure with pulmonary edema. 60.5 thousand times and end-stage kidney failure 54.7 thousand times, as for the diseases for which the elderly receive the most services from all age groups. Of outpatients, 88.90% were enlarged prostate, 83.11% were chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and 81.09% were cardiac arrhythmias from the number of patients in all age groups. For inpatients it is Senile cataract from cloudy or hardened cornea was 85.41%, unspecified senile cataract was 82.57%, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with exacerbation was 82.32%.
In addition, diseases that elderly people receive treatment for The top three causes of hospital and death were pneumonia caused by viruses, 8,769 cases, pneumonia 7,779 cases, and urinary tract infections, 3,103 cases. As for diseases treated in Hospitals and deaths had a higher proportion than other age groups. The top 3 were COPD that occurred along with acute upper respiratory tract infections (92.92 percent), urinary tract infections (84.74 percent), and muscle. Acute myocardial infarction, 84.34 percent, and pneumonia from aspiration, 83.95 percent. As for access to services according to the gold card benefits of the elderly, in 2022 there will be rehabilitation services for 385,377 elderly people, public health services for the elderly with dependency, 176,553. Cataract surgery services for the elderly: 101,615 cases; Dental prosthetics for the elderly: 33,687 cases; Osteoarthritis surgery for the elderly: 8,678 cases; Diabetes treatment services: Outpatients: 9.12 million times; Inpatients: 99,000 times. High blood pressure services: 17.26. million times and 33.4 thousand inpatient times and colorectal cancer screening service with FIT- test, ages 50-70, totaling 622,000 people, of whom there are abnormal results, 7.49 percent enter treatment.
“The Gold Card is a system that provides the most health care for the elderly. There are more than 10 million elderly people in care. Therefore, part of the NHSO budget has been used to care for these elderly people. To provide access to essential medical care and public health services The most comprehensive and thorough and provide the elderly with gold patents a better quality of life While this information will still be useful. Both in terms of developing the health system to continue taking care of the elderly,” said the NHSO Secretary-General.
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