@article{López Jaramillo_Zúñiga-Denuncio_Rangel-Gómez_Fuentes-Flores_2014, title={Relationship between adherence to medical appointments HIV+ patients and geographical accessibility to health services among patients living with HIV Tijuana´s CAPASITS}, volume={12}, url={https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/psm/article/view/16778}, DOI={10.15517/psm.v12i2.16778}, abstractNote={<strong>Objective:</strong> To study the relationship between adherence to medical appointments HIV+ patients attending the CAPASITS Tijuana and geographical accessibility to health services. <strong>Material and Methods:</strong> Across-sectional study with 267 medical records of people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy was performed. Demographic and epidemiological profile was developed, a model of multivariate logistic regression with dependent variable "Assistance CAPASITS appointment during the last six months" and the independent variable of interest "Geographic availability index". <strong>Results: </strong>Attendance at medical appointments in last six months of HIV+ people, is significantly affected by variables such as population characteristics (age), availability of resources and advancing infection. <strong>Discussion</strong><strong>: </strong>To Tijuana, access did not stop to medical appointments scheduled in the last six months. However, individual factors make the difference between those who attend to any such appointments.}, number={2}, journal={Población y Salud en Mesoamérica}, author={López Jaramillo, Ana María and Zúñiga-Denuncio, María Luisa and Rangel-Gómez, María Gudelia and Fuentes-Flores, César Mario}, year={2014}, month={Dec.} }