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publicly owned hospitals. These difficulties limit the use of cost information as a way to estimate aggregate health expenditures by age. Several examples of health costs by age could be shown in Latin America in public and private institutions, but most of the health institutions in LAC do not systematically collect this information. Figure 4.26 presents hospital
Figure 4.26
Hospital Health Costs in Brazil and Uruguay by Age and Gender
+ 80
–7
9
4 75
65
70
–6
–7
9
4 –6
9 –5
60
4 45
55
–5
4
4
–4 35
4
–3 25
–2
4
14
15
5–
1–
<1
cost (R$)
a. Brazil 780 730 680 630 580 530 480 430 380 330 280
age group men
women
b. Uruguay 3,500
cost (N$)
3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 14
0–
4
4
–4
15
–6
45
both genders
9 –6 65 age group
9
4
–7
70
male
Sources: For Uruguay; Micklin and others 1993; for Brazil: DATASUS-AIH 2003.
–7
75
female
+
80