As diabetes influences Mexico’s microeconomy
Health is interpreted as the state in which the body allows us. (Health, 1948)
We can understand the health economy “is dedicated to research, study, measurement methods, rationalization and analysis systems of activities related to the financing, production and distribution and consumption of goods and services that meet health and low health needs Principles of efficacy and equity "". (Health and Cisterna, 2009)
We can define that health is interpreted as an economic well -being that is very scarce, all this is because health spending is increasing.
First of all, we have to understand that the economy “is the study of activities related to production and exchange between people, as well as the study of the way in which people decide to use the scarce resources that many could have uses to generate various goods and thus distribute them to be consumed ”. (Cardona, 2017)
The economy plays an indispensable role in human development, as we all know the human tends to survive, as it is, so that the creation of goods and services is a great way to exemplify this way of surviving, humanity has been using all the new ones Resources and tools day with day to improve their quality of life and also satisfy their tastes and basic needs in this process, man can use “free goods and economic goods, free are those that meet a human need and are found in large amounts greater than demand and therefore do not represent a cost for their acquisition. And economic goods are those produced by man, which generates a cost of production and therefore generates a cost when wanting to obtain it. Any health decision implies an expense therefore an economic management ”. (Cardona, 2017)
Carlos Marx and Federico Engels pointed out that “to live it is necessary to eat, drink, stay under a roof, dress and some more things. The first historical fact is, therefore, the production of the necessary means to be able to meet these needs, that is, the production of life itself ”so it is clear that material things are indispensable for the existence of every being human.(Cardona, 2017) "Microeconomics is He studies of the choice made by people and companies, so these elections interact with the markets and the influence that the Government has among them". (Parkin, 2010)
Microeconomia helps or determines which are the best decisions they buy in this case of consumers and thus companies act in a manner congruent in the distribution of the production of Nutre companies, families and individuals, the supply and demand for the demand for private markets.
For example, he explains how they decide what consumers buy and this is going to influence the decision of the price variation. The microeconomy of health is aimed at studying the economic behavior of producers and consumer, in this case it would be the "health service market", so in this case the producers would be doctors, psychologists nurses, dentists and Anyone belonging to health personnel and consumers who require this service, usually patients. It should be noted that the health sector has many goods and services that range from the most insignificant to surgery, but here public and meritorious goods are paid or financed by the Government, while private ones alone those who can access.
"Through health economy it will help us better understand the health system and institutions, in order to better prioritize resources to benefit the population and therefore their health and quality of life". (Cardona, 2017)
The variables of microeconomics are those that will have an influence on the decisions of how and to consume or because they have those attitudes before wanting to consume them and in the future how to influence. A variable of microeconomy is that which influences and describes the decisions related to what, as and so that, so that the attitudes of consuming them about the future will influence their spending and savings decisions, so they would be a variable. (Parkin, 2010)
‘The cost and expense variables, the cost of the value of the production factors that are necessary to obtain the goods and services, the costs can be variable or fixed, the cost or production, investment cost, cost of the Distribution and that of the Administration, all these are necessary for the product to reach consumers, so that the expense could be defined as a cost that has rendered its benefits, an disbursement is generated regularly when producing or distributing some service, so the cost will be transformed into spending when it has generated a utility ‘. One of the markets most related to the health sector is the sale of medical insurance, the technology that goes to health, as well as the pharmacist. (Cardona, 2017)
Diabetes in Mexico
Diabetes is today a big health problem in Mexico, either because of its mortality or the prevalence it has and all the problems that it is generated, neuropathy, blindness, etc.(Association, 2017) According to WHO. Type 1 diabetes is characterized by the absence of insulin or insulin -dependent, type 2 that has an inability of the body to use insulin ’. (Health, 1948)
The director of the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara, Héctor Raúl Pérez Gomez, said that ‘it is estimated that approximately 10 % of the Mexican population, that is, 12 million Mexicans suffer from diabetes. But this figure does not include those who are not yet diagnosed or have a high risk of suffering from ’. (Luna, 2016)
It is a very complicated disease since between its causes and reducing its risk factors it goes beyond the health system, since it is necessary to modify eating habits, adopt self-care behavior, so it is not limited to medical care. Diabetes is a big public health problem in the country, since it develops mainly due to bad habits, thus affecting the quality of life. If the population does not seriously take the impact that this disease is having, they will continue to transmit them to the generation habits to generation and with genetic load, it increases more its possibility of developing diabetes mellitus. So it is important that from an early age you begin to transmit and instill good eating habits, as well as physical exercise or activity, which will help us reduce the risk.
The Mexican Diabetes Federation points out that diabetes dysfunctions in Mexico are increasing, which is alarming, since ‘in 1980 only 14,626 dysfunctions were presented and in 2016, 105,575 thousand dysfunctions were recorded. Not to mention that DM is the second cause of death in Mexico after vascular diseases, an important risk factor is overweight and obesity, since 90% of cases of diabetes mellitus, according to the National Health and Nutrition Survey ’. (ASOCITION, 2017)
The economic impact
Diabetes has a very high economic impact, since patients live day by day with this disease, which not only determines their demand, but their productivity in their life and work. Therefore, it directly affects the entry of their families and the contribution to the country, so living sick or having a chronic condition brings economic consequences at a social level directly. (Economic Load of Diabetes Mellitus in Mexico., 2013)
A chronic disease generates costs that are associated with medical care, including medicines and medical service. The indirect costs of this disease are those that are related to the rectum it has, be it premature mortality and disabilities that it generates and the performance of the sick individual in a social economic environment environment. ‘Everything can be seen from different perspectives, the home, the State; who finances and provides services and the sector that generates jobs ’. (Economic Load of Diabetes Mellitus in Mexico., 2013)
INEGI in 2013 conducted a survey which recorded 362,859.82 million pesos, which represented 2.25% of GDP. What was compared to Mexican economic growth and the destined for diabetics was greater than economic growth, most consultations for diabetes complications represents the highest percentage of direct costs. (INEGI, 2013)
Direct costs is expense in medical care from the point of view of public institutions and households, and indirect costs would be the loss of income, productivity, either due to death or disability, here comes the point of view of employers, social security and home.
In direct spending on diabetes, they break down in medical care associated with a treatment, for example; hypoglycemicos or insulins, laboratory tests, transportation to be able to attend. To the consultation, the complications that generate more cost such as neuropathies, ophthalmic complications, diabetic coma, nephropathy, stroke or acute myocardium infarction, which are just some of the complications, as well as surgical interventions and hospitalization days. (Economic Load of Diabetes Mellitus in Mexico., 2013)
Indirect expenses represent for example premature death, labor absenteeism; generating the economic losing that results why the worker does not attend to work, work disability; the loss of the faculties of the person, which is temporarily made it impossible for the worker to perform his activities, disability; that it is the economic loss result by some of the complications by diabetes, not to mention that a person is nursing her performance in all aspects. (Economic Load of Diabetes Mellitus in Mexico., 2013)
‘Ell average annual cost of the treatment of a person with diabetes that is controlled and does not present complications from eight thousand pesos’. (crown., 2017)
For the aforementioned how to reduce expenses to this problem is creating prevention campaigns or detect in time and keep well controlled patients, so it is essential to promote health and awareness, as well as education in these issues to the population who see it as something or a non -risk pathology.
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The International Diabetes Federation (FID) estimates that ‘In 2035 the number of diabetic people will increase to 592 million, which could represent the 8.8% of the population that goes from 20 to 79 years worldwide. For 2010, the International Diabetes Federation revealed that it was the second cause of death in Mexico U is one of the first 5 to cause disability in patients ’. (ASOCITION, 2017)
The lack of timely detection has resulted in many complications, generating hypertension, decreased view, until you lose sight. It is perfectly linked to risk factors overweight and obesity. Each of three Mexicans is obese, according to the Organization for Economic Development Cooperation. (OECD) and this is also happening in the child population, which is very alarming. According to the OECD, this is increasing and in many countries it has been stable, which means that we are doing wrong in prevention of young people and people who are still in time to correct their habits. (GSK, 2018)
In addition to reducing economic income to the home, chronic diseases such as diabetes, there may also be losses in savings, reducing education opportunities. Just as people who take care of the patient, are or run the risk of not having or losing a fixed salary or having a fixed job that generates income to their home, the State must also absorb costs through the Institutions of social continuing and covers it before cases of disability or disability, and speaking of the productive sector is reflected in the loss of productivity in sick workers, so many times the company looks like the need to hire another Person who has at the level of productivity that the company demands.
What costs to keep a diabetic is already exceeding the health sector, so we have to begin to sensitize all sectors of our community and society in general and modify risk factors to reduce its prevalence. The complications that generate a cost are nephropathies, acute myocardium infarction occupies second place, the prevalence is greater in women than in men. (Economic Load of Diabetes Mellitus in Mexico., 2013) At home As mentioned before, the loss of family income is the most representative since its quality or lifestyle decays. The National Survey of Health and Nutrition Project that ‘In 2018, the economic impact would amount to 506 million pesos per year, which would represent 2.62% of the gross domestic product ’. (Economic Load of Diabetes Mellitus in Mexico., 2013)
To conclude we have to keep in mind that diabetes is a disease of priority in our country, which goes beyond medical-patient care, since the patient must change his lifestyle and bad habits, that he adopts a behavior of self-care and greater responsibility for your life and health. Therefore, it is essential. The economic impact of diabetes is not only reflected in figures, but also affects the economy of the home of the person who suffers from it, since its performance lowers, so it costs more work to adapt to a work pace, thus As the medications that are necessary for your control, an example insulin, if an insulin -dependent ends the dose that Social Security gives or IMSS has to cover it by its own means, but if we have a patient with more complications such as retinopathies Or that this has some neuropathy, are complications that require more expense, time and care of both the patient and the family that is always the protection of the sick family member. Mexico has many campaigns for the prevention of diabetes, one of them is the famous chécate, get of the main risk factors of diabetes. So the IMSS launched a prevention campaign in 2017 which seeks to address in advance the appearance of diabetes, as well as cardiovascular disease and some more pathologies that affect the Mexican population more. But in the end, even if the government insists with prevention campaigns, the last word is as human beings, whether or not we change our habits or continue to increase the risk of contracting any of chronic diseases, since they not only affect To our health, but to our economy at home and throughout our environment, more prevention could make a big difference.
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