A evitabilidade de óbitos entre idosos em São Paulo, Brasil

Análise Das Principais Causas De Morte

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5223575
AutoresSolange Kanso (0000-0001-7044-7754, Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais, autor correspondente), Dalia Elena Romero (0000-0002-2643-9797, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Iuri Da Costa Leite (0000-0002-9136-8948, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública), Aline Marques (0000-0002-8434-4809), Aline Pinto Marques (0000-0002-9072-5333, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
Ano2013
Volume29
Fascículo4
Páginas735-748
Data de publicação2013-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-311x2013000400011
PMID23568303
OpenAlexW2137936330
SCIELO_PIDS0102-311X2013000400011
IdiomaPT
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas19

Avoidable causes of death have become an important indicator for evaluating health services. Such deaths would not occur if there were adequate prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment and the adoption of appropriate technologies. This article analyzes the pattern and magnitude of avoidable causes of death for the principal causes of death among elderly individuals up to 74 years of age, by gender, in São Paulo State, Brazil. The study further estimated the impact of avoidable causes of death on life expectancy among the elderly, and 62.5% of the deaths among elderly up to 74 years in São Paulo were due to these causes. The principal avoidable causes of death constituted 82.6% of all avoidable deaths, featuring hypertensions and tobacco-associated tumors. Life expectancy at 60 would increase by 20% if these deaths were avoided. Male excess mortality was observed in nearly all of the avoidable causes of death analyzed here, which could be related to greater exposure to risk factors and less use of health services by men. Prevention and health promotion measures should take these sharp gender differences into account

Cause of death · Disease · Environmental health · Humanities · Life expectancy · Population · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Medicine · Philosophy · Gerontology