Table 2 Description of the clusters according to active variables
Characteristics, mean (SD) | Isolated rural municipalities with poor accessibility to all healthcare professionals and services | Rural or outlying suburban municipalities that have difficulty accessing only certain types of healthcare professionals | Urban centers rather favored in terms of accessibility to health care, mitigated for some by high needs or declining supply | Globala | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cluster 1 | Cluster 2 | Cluster 3 | Cluster 4 | Cluster 5 | Cluster 6 | Cluster 7 | ||
Part of municipalities (%) | 6 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 9 | Â |
Part of inhabitants (%) | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 29 | 37 | Â |
Health care accessibility | ||||||||
 LPA of GPsb | 1.1 (1.0) | 1.9 (0.7) | 2.0 (0.6) | 3.3 (1.0) | 3.1 (0.6) | 3.3 (0.7) | 4.7 (1.0) | 2.8 (1.2) |
 LPA of nursesc | 61.7 (58.8) | 81.7 (35.7) | 79.0 (31.9) | 114.4 (59.1) | 137.6 (52.9) | 121.9 (44.5) | 218.7 (96.2) | 113.8 (66.3) |
 LPA of physiotherapistc | 25.0 (27.8) | 39.5 (19.7) | 45.8 (19.9) | 63.9 (33.4) | 73.9 (25.5) | 87.5 (28.7) | 145.9 (46.6) | 66.9 (41.6) |
 Distance to the nearest pharmacyc | 11.6 (6.4) | 6.8 (3.6) | 7.2 (3.8) | 5.5 (3.7) | 4.5 (3.5) | 4.4 (3.9) | 2.3 (3.3) | 5.8 (4.4) |
 Distance to the nearest laboratoryd | 27.8 (12.7) | 17.4 (6.1) | 15.8 (5.5) | 19.2 (8.7) | 11.1 (5.4) | 10.6 (5.6) | 7.6 (6.2) | 14.9 (8.5) |
 Distance to the nearest radiologistd | 36.8 (16.3) | 23.4 (7.9) | 20.1 (6.7) | 26.7 (9.8) | 15.0 (7.5) | 14.2 (6.9) | 11.0 (7.8) | 20.1 (10.8) |
 Distance to the nearest emergency serviced | 49.4 (17.2) | 27.1 (8.7) | 24.9 (7.8) | 35.1 (10.6) | 18.4 (8.3) | 18.7 (7.5) | 14.7 (9.4) | 25.4 (12.8) |
Dynamic of supply | ||||||||
 Gps’ LPA annual average rate of change | − 1.9 (4.9) | − 5.9 (4.0) | − 2.6 (3.4) | 0.3 (4.4) | − 3.5 (2.9) | − 1.0 (2.5) | − 1.0 (2.4) | − 2.37 (4.1) |
 Part of GPs over 60 years old | 35.0 (18.0) | 48.3 (19.7) | 30.7 (14.5) | 23.8 (15.7) | 40.2 (15.4) | 25.6 (12.9) | 27.1 (12.6) | 33.3 (17.9) |
Needs of healthcare | ||||||||
 Standardized general mortality ratee | 978.4 (90.7) | 1027.5 (89.7) | 918.1 (67.4) | 993.8 (86.5) | 1035.1 (96.4) | 892.0 (67.6) | 952.1 (96.7) | 972.2 (100) |
 Standardized premature mortality ratee | 206.0 (34.0) | 221.9 (29.0) | 182.5 (26.5) | 207.7 (30.3) | 229.6 (31.5) | 171.4 (25.6) | 204.0 (36.2) | 203.19 (36.3) |
 Median income per household | 19,759 (2357) | 20,585 (1936) | 22,676 (3141) | 20,733 (2015) | 20,986 (2010) | 24,230 (3595) | 22,119 (2814) | 21,733 (2970) |