Use of health services and consumption of medicines. Absolute figures
Indication of referral to the accident and emergency service in the last 12 months, by sex and Autonomous Community. Population that has used the accident and emergency service of a public health hospital in the last 12 months
Units: thousands of persons

	Total	Because the doctor said to do so	Because the interviewee, his or her family members or other persons regarded it as necessary	No data recorded	
BOTH SEXES	
    Total	8,219.5	940.1	7,027.7	251.8	
    Andalucía	1,706.0	116.0	1,523.5	66.6	
    Aragón	201.1	36.3	155.5	9.4	
    Asturias (Principado de)	220.0	35.6	184.4	0.0	
    Balears (Illes)	177.2	8.7	159.2	9.3	
    Canarias	252.1	30.8	218.1	3.2	
    Cantabria	114.5	10.7	100.6	3.2	
    Castilla y León	400.5	67.7	319.8	13.0	
    Castilla-La Mancha	339.0	85.9	240.7	12.4	
    Cataluña	1,275.5	119.9	1,089.3	66.4	
    Comunitat Valenciana	919.4	93.7	804.6	21.1	
    Extremadura	169.3	27.6	141.2	0.6	
    Galicia	546.3	110.8	429.9	5.6	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	936.1	88.3	825.4	22.5	
    Murcia (Región de)	259.1	16.6	235.2	7.3	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	118.5	28.2	86.3	3.9	
    País Vasco	486.4	54.0	427.8	4.5	
    Rioja (La)	60.5	6.6	52.4	1.5	
    Ceuta and Melilla	38.0	2.7	33.9	1.4	
MALES	
    Total	3,907.8	435.6	3,379.8	92.4	
    Andalucía	800.1	50.0	712.8	37.3	
    Aragón	93.4	15.8	75.3	2.3	
    Asturias (Principado de)	91.6	15.0	76.6	0.0	
    Balears (Illes)	85.8	4.7	77.9	3.2	
    Canarias	103.0	5.3	97.7	0.0	
    Cantabria	51.4	3.3	45.9	2.2	
    Castilla y León	209.6	36.9	168.5	4.2	
    Castilla-La Mancha	187.9	44.7	136.9	6.3	
    Cataluña	641.9	63.8	562.3	15.7	
    Comunitat Valenciana	432.2	31.2	392.3	8.7	
    Extremadura	96.6	15.2	80.8	0.6	
    Galicia	258.5	54.8	202.2	1.5	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	382.4	40.4	334.4	7.6	
    Murcia (Región de)	127.4	5.4	121.7	0.3	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	56.2	13.9	41.6	0.8	
    País Vasco	246.8	30.6	215.5	0.8	
    Rioja (La)	27.1	3.0	23.3	0.8	
    Ceuta and Melilla	15.7	1.6	14.1	0.0	
FEMALES	
    Total	4,311.8	504.5	3,647.9	159.4	
    Andalucía	905.9	66.0	810.6	29.3	
    Aragón	107.7	20.5	80.1	7.0	
    Asturias (Principado de)	128.4	20.6	107.8	0.0	
    Balears (Illes)	91.4	4.0	81.3	6.1	
    Canarias	149.1	25.5	120.4	3.2	
    Cantabria	63.1	7.3	54.7	1.0	
    Castilla y León	190.9	30.8	151.3	8.8	
    Castilla-La Mancha	151.1	41.2	103.9	6.0	
    Cataluña	633.6	56.0	526.9	50.7	
    Comunitat Valenciana	487.2	62.6	412.3	12.3	
    Extremadura	72.8	12.3	60.4	0.0	
    Galicia	287.8	56.0	227.7	4.1	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	553.7	47.8	491.0	14.9	
    Murcia (Región de)	131.7	11.2	113.5	6.9	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	62.2	14.4	44.7	3.2	
    País Vasco	239.6	23.5	212.4	3.7	
    Rioja (La)	33.4	3.6	29.1	0.7	
    Ceuta and Melilla	22.3	1.1	19.8	1.4	
Notes:
The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be provided since it may be affected by sampling errors.
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which is not collected.
 The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an 'error of division by zero'.
Source: Ministry of Health and Consumption and INE