Scarcity in abundance? Spatial inequalities in Rheumatoid Arthritis in a health system with financial equity

BMC Rheumatology

Table 1 Estimated prevalence for Rheumatoid Arthritis (Colombia, 2018)

Group		Population	Patients		Prevalence		A-S prevalence
Group			≥ 1	≥ 2	≥ 1 (%)	≥ 2 (%)	≥ 1 (%)	≥ 2 (%)
Total		16,907,798	87,145	73,618	0.5154	0.4354	0.4361	0.3683
Sex
	Female(F)	8,836,742	71,936	61,182	0.8141	0.6924	0.6593	0.5607
	Male (M)	8,071,056	15,209	12,436	0.1884	0.1541	0.1690	0.1379
Age	0–19	4,411,946	1,087	687	0.0246	0.0156	0.0082	0.0051
	20–39	5,729,805	10,737	8,811	0.1874	0.1538	0.0169	0.0133
	40–59	4,272,424	36,185	31,019	0.8469	0.726	0.0568	0.0466
	60–79	2,112,652	34,192	29,261	1.6184	1.385	0.1855	0.1589
	80+	377,563	4,944	3,840	1.3095	1.017	0.1687	0.1443

Data from Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social de Colombia, Suficiencia dataset. population refers to exposed individuals, defined as individuals enrolled in mandatory public health insurance in the contributory regime. ≥ 1 refers to patients with at least one utilization of healthcare directly related to Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and ≥2 refers to those with at least two of those utilizations. Age-Standardized (AS) Prevalence calculated following the method and standard population defined in [19].

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