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1999, Number 3

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Rev Mex Patol Clin Med Lab 1999; 46 (3)

Methodological approach to confronting health problems with support in Clinical Pathology

Rivera CAE, Sánchez-González J, Pérez HU, Tovar GJL

Language: Spanish
References: 21
Page: 172-183
PDF size: 165.62 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The present work had two purposes: the first, to analyze the tendencies of illness and death in Guanajuato, a central state of Mexico and to delineate proposals for the study of epidemiology in tendencies in health and illness, as a basic outline comparative to other states of the country. The study is a comparative survey based on an opinion of the official registrations of the Health Sector and in the behavior of a group of people involved in a health program from the perspective of clinical pathology. The results indicate that there exists an important polarization of morbi-mortality toward infectious illness in a majority population sector and chronic-degenerative illness in an other sector. The factors to explain the great prevalence of infectious illness included age, socioeconomic and cultural stratum, and sub-urban and marginal geographical zones. Chronic-degenerative illness is introduced in the mature adult and in the elderly, who belong to low and middle socioeconomic and cultural strata, and in residents of urban areas of the industrial zone of the Bajío, Guanajuato. Other spike of risk is observed between 15 and 44 years olds, with violent deaths as principal cause of death, related basically with the consumption of alcohol in young people. In this group, females have a greater risk of tumor-related death. From 40 to 50 years of age, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases are the principal causes of morbility and mortality. By means of prevention, it is possible generate ample coverage at low cost and great impact in our society, with the directed utilization of clinical pathology for epidemiological problems.


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