Resumen

FLORES SANDI, Grettchen. Socioeconomic factors associated to the type of denounces. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2005, vol.22, n.1, pp.111-125. ISSN 2215-5287.

The control of the public finance and the need of human resources, materials and training of the human medical resource, justify the study of the distribution, determinants, and the frequency of the services that they receive. In this context, it is stand in this study, where or not a relation exists between the socio economical factors and the type of denounce that is made by the consultant of the Medical Forensic Clinic. From the statistical analysis made, it shows us significant relationships between the denounce made and these variables: age, sex, civil state, occupation, education level.

Palabras clave : denounce; socio economical facts; forensic attendance; crimes tips.