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Cost analysis in a Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine unit in Brazil

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the costs of a specialized service in Traditional Complementary and Integrative Medicines (TCIM) in Northeast Brazil to provide data on the cost linked to the implementation and maintenance of services of this nature and to identify the average cost per user for the Unified Hea...

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Autores principales: Assunção, Marcone César Tabosa, de Aquino, Camilla Maria Ferreira, de Sousa, Islândia Maria Carvalho, de Carvalho, Manoel Raymundo, Jordão, Vitor Pereira, Bezerra, Adriana Falangola Benjamin
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Publicado: Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7702377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33331423
http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054001649
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author Assunção, Marcone César Tabosa
de Aquino, Camilla Maria Ferreira
de Sousa, Islândia Maria Carvalho
de Carvalho, Manoel Raymundo
Jordão, Vitor Pereira
Bezerra, Adriana Falangola Benjamin
author_facet Assunção, Marcone César Tabosa
de Aquino, Camilla Maria Ferreira
de Sousa, Islândia Maria Carvalho
de Carvalho, Manoel Raymundo
Jordão, Vitor Pereira
Bezerra, Adriana Falangola Benjamin
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description OBJECTIVE: To analyze the costs of a specialized service in Traditional Complementary and Integrative Medicines (TCIM) in Northeast Brazil to provide data on the cost linked to the implementation and maintenance of services of this nature and to identify the average cost per user for the Unified Health System. METHODS: This is a partial, descriptive, quantitative economic assessment, which used secondary data, later grouped in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. The method used to analyze such costs was absorption costing, from which the service was divided into three costing centers: productive, administrative and auxiliary. RESULTS: After analyzing the data, the total cost of the service in 2014 was estimated at R$ 1,270,015.70, with a proportion of 79.69% of direct costs. The average cost per user in this period was R$ 36.79, considering the total of 34,521 users in individual and collective practices. CONCLUSIONS: The service has a cost per user compatible with a specialized service; however, TCIM offers a comprehensive and holistic approach, which can have a positive impact on quality of life.
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spelling pubmed-77023772020-12-04 Cost analysis in a Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine unit in Brazil Assunção, Marcone César Tabosa de Aquino, Camilla Maria Ferreira de Sousa, Islândia Maria Carvalho de Carvalho, Manoel Raymundo Jordão, Vitor Pereira Bezerra, Adriana Falangola Benjamin Rev Saude Publica Original Article OBJECTIVE: To analyze the costs of a specialized service in Traditional Complementary and Integrative Medicines (TCIM) in Northeast Brazil to provide data on the cost linked to the implementation and maintenance of services of this nature and to identify the average cost per user for the Unified Health System. METHODS: This is a partial, descriptive, quantitative economic assessment, which used secondary data, later grouped in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. The method used to analyze such costs was absorption costing, from which the service was divided into three costing centers: productive, administrative and auxiliary. RESULTS: After analyzing the data, the total cost of the service in 2014 was estimated at R$ 1,270,015.70, with a proportion of 79.69% of direct costs. The average cost per user in this period was R$ 36.79, considering the total of 34,521 users in individual and collective practices. CONCLUSIONS: The service has a cost per user compatible with a specialized service; however, TCIM offers a comprehensive and holistic approach, which can have a positive impact on quality of life. Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo 2020-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7702377/ /pubmed/33331423 http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054001649 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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de Aquino, Camilla Maria Ferreira
de Sousa, Islândia Maria Carvalho
de Carvalho, Manoel Raymundo
Jordão, Vitor Pereira
Bezerra, Adriana Falangola Benjamin
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title_short Cost analysis in a Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine unit in Brazil
title_sort cost analysis in a traditional, complementary and integrative medicine unit in brazil
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7702377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33331423
http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054001649
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