Furthermore, patients living with chronic illness may be overwhelmed by physical, emotional, and financial uncertainties, social dilemmas, and costly expenditures, generating other chronic conditions that affect the whole family [ 2, 3].
The expenditure generated from this demand is geared towards meeting the expressed need.
We used the Territorial Pharmacy Database that routinely measures the volume of expenditure generated by the dispensing of drugs to enrollees.
The LHUs have an information network that routinely measures the volumes of expenditure generated by the use of health care services and collects them into computerized reimbursement databases.
In the Medications Prescription Database, the LHU routinely measures the volume of expenditure generated by the dispensing of drugs to the enrollees.
Using the Territorial Pharmacy Database, local health units routinely measure the volume of expenditure generated by dispensing of drugs to enrollees.
The expenditure generated by the immigrant population is therefore an important aspect to study when analysing the repercussions the immigration phenomenon is having on the public health system, given that the available information is very scarce.
The LHU, being a point of delivery for the National Health Service, which is a nonprofit health-care system, has an information network that routinely measures the volume of expenditure generated by the dispensing of medications to registered patients.
This expenditure was generated in 231,013 overall days of follow up (about 289 days per patient observed), resulting in €8,498 per patient per year of observation (approximately €24.5 per patient per day).
Since most of the activity in a hospital (both patient care and resource expenditure) is generated on the micro-level where the patient meets the doctor, complete analysis of different departments and health care professions were considered important.
