Um olhar econômico sobre a prevenção do câncer de colo de útero no Brasil: evidências a partir dos dados da pesquisa nacional de saúde

Abstract

The objective of this research is to know the profile of women on the prevention of cervical cancer in Brazil, identifying the factors that are associated with the performance or nonperformance of cervical cancer screening and their temporal frequency. Therefore, the data from the National Health 2013 IBGE research were used. The theoretical basis used in the research is the Health Economics, along with the Demand Model for Health Michael Grossman. To achieve the objective of the research was used, in addition to descriptive statistics, the logit model Sort Generalized to estimate the main determinants in the decision prevention. The results show that the profile of women that most prevent are those with health insurance, have or have had cancer, living with spouse or partner, have college degrees, do not smoke and live in the south. At the other end, preventive behavior of women who never warned not have education, smoking, being rural and reside in the Northeast of Brazil. In the descriptive analysis of the data demonstrated that 40% of the women interviewed did take prevention in less than a year, on the other hand, over 15% said they have never done. The results suggest that there was no progress in the distribution of health services equitably and information policy to women, especially the less educated.