Hospital mortality and years of potential life lost in the San Felipe Hospital, 2014

Abstract

Honduras is a middle-income country that is in the process of epidemiological transition and one of the ways to verify this is through the hospital mortality data whose data are based on the registration of causes of death on death certificates. One of the methods of measurement of hospital mortality by years of potential life lost from 1978 proposed as an indicator of health status of a population, quantifies premature deaths, and can be used to determine the priorities in public health. It is a retrospective cross-sectional study conducted at the San Felipe Hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, na­tional reference center and national cancer center in the country, whose data show that from the underlying cause of death, the female is the quantifying the greatest number of years of potential life lost caused by tumors, sepsis, perinatal disorders and diseases of thecirculatory system. In the case of men, the quantification of the disability-adjusted life year are related to non-insulin dependent diabetes, diseases of the respiratory system and digestive system.

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes, Vol. 11, 2015: 39-47