Objectives: To determine users’ satisfaction in Peru Ministry of Health’s health centers (HC) and hospitals, to analyze the relation between users’ satisfaction and the socioeconomic variable, and to identify both the sociodemographic and accessibility factors related. Materials and Methods: Secondary analysis of the database of Peruvian Living Standards Survey (PLSS), year 2000; 376 health center and 327 hospital users were studied. The study variables were users’ satisfaction, socioeconomic level, socio-demographic variables and accessibility to care. Descriptive and multivariate statistics were applied. Results: The health center users show patterns different to the hospital users. Satisfaction was respectively 68,1% and 62,1% for health centers and hospitals. The users with less socioeconomic level showed greater satisfaction. Age, education, distance to health facilities and...

En este documento se realiza el análisis de los datos recogidos sobre desnutrición crónica, obesidad, anemia, prevalencia de enfermedades diarreicas agudas (EDA) e infecciones respiratorias agudas (IRA), y pobreza según NBI, durante el periodo 2002-2004. La muestra incluyó 12972 niños menores de cinco años y 19242 mujeres en edad fértil en el año 2004, 56,9% residían en áreas rurales