Abstract
Objective
To analyze the access times of men and women who are having a myocardial infarction to referral hospitals in cardiology and the correlation between them.
Methods
Cross-sectional research, involving 100 victims of a myocardial infarction who were interviewed at referral hospitals in cardiology. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used with statistical significance.
Results
The access times were long (decision to seek care, arrival to first health service, time in care network and admission to referral hospitals in cardiology), except for the transportation time, mainly for women. The decision time contributed more to the time it took to arrive at the first health service and the time in the care network contributed more to the time to arrive at the referral hospitals in cardiology.
Conclusion
The long time waiting for specialized care reflects the lack of structure of the health services and the long decision time reflects the participants’ lack of recognition of the myocardial infarction.
Health services accessibility; Public health nursing; Education, nursing; Myocardial infarction