Public Health is the discipline responsible for promoting, maintaining and protecting the health of a community. And today, we give you an update on the leading causes of death in Mexico.
How are the main causes of death measured in Mexico?
Consider the social determinants, lifestyle, environment and general conditions that characterize this community. As well as the predisposition that various risk factors have to cause disease, injury or disability.
In Mexico, this discipline was consolidated and professionalized at the end of the 19th century, which marked great progress for combat infectious diseases and eradicate some of its main causes of death, such as smallpox, measles, whooping cough, plague, cholera and influenza.
During 2021 and CURRENTLY these causes changed, positioning the heart disease, COVID-19, diabetes mellitus, tumors and liver diseaseor as the main ones, which shows a change in the forms and conditions of life.
CAUSES OF DEATH BY AGE GROUP
Speaking specifically by age groups, people over the age of 65 have a higher death rate than other groups, mainly due to heart disease, COVID-19 and diabetes mellitus. While those between the ages of 25 and 64 died especially from COVID-19 infection.
Prevention and health promotion programs have succeeded in mitigating and controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in our country thanks to vaccination, especially in people who are at higher risk of getting seriously ill. However, this
disease caused a 50 percent increase of mortality expected during 2021.
In the case of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 the main cause was due to assaults, essentially due to homicides; and in the group of 10 to 14 years due to accidents. Finally, in the child population we found that from five to nine years old it was the malignant tumorsfrom one to four years, accidents and in children under one year, conditions originating during the perinatal period.
These figures are a preliminary sample, in October 2022 the official figures will be presented
According to INEGIbetween January 2020 and June 2021, 1 million 116 thousand 482 deaths were expected to occur, but 1 million 649 thousand 031 occurred. That is, there were 532 thousand 549 deaths of morewhich means that there were 47.7% more deaths than expected.
This figure not only accounts for the COVID-19 deaths, but includes all causes, but as the Health system reduced care for other diseases to convert hospitals to treat only COVID patients, especially at the beginning of the pandemic. What’s more, people also decided not to go to hospitals for fear of contagionwhich may have impacted his health.
As we mentioned, These figures are a preliminary sample, it will be until October 2022 that the official figures for the entire year of 2021 will be presented. To review all the data on the report da click here.
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