Proportional mortality in three years, Hospital San Felipe, M.D.C.
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https://doi.org/10.5377/pdac.v13i0.5631Keywords:
mortality, proportional mortality, basic cause of deathAbstract
There are a number of indicators that are used to measure the health conditions of a population. When implementing the Health for All strategy in the 1980s, the use of 12 indicators, including mortality, was considered, which is an outcome indicator and is an excellent working tool for health authorities. developing countries. Based on the above, the present study is cross-sectional and retrospective, including data for three years, 2014, 2015 and 2016, with emphasis on proportional mortality by cause, being the leading cause of death, cancer, the second cause, Septicemia and the following causes of death are all related to noncommunicable diseases. Being a national referral hospital that includes maternity service, it is also included as the last cause of death related to affections that affect the group under one year of age. Each of these causes are related to specific risk factors that must be taken into account for the planning of prevention programs, especially in the analysis of the information that after the review of the same allows to know the behavior in the exposed years, Which is why they should be taken into account for the planning of hospital services and the entire hospital network in the country. Hospital mortality, with the limitation of being a negative indicator of health, is a very important aspect in clinical and epidemiological research and in the knowledge of the health problems of the population that goes to the hospital.
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