Table of life for beneficiaries of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (ISSSTE), Mexico 2021.

Objective: Determine the life expectancy in the covered population of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers in México for 2021.

Method: We used the abrogated method from Reed-Merrel, for calculate the life expectancy in age groups.

Results: By 2021, life expectancy general was 79.

[2015 life tables of population user of Jalisco’s Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social services].

Background: The life table is a useful instrument to measure the impact of health care in a population. In this case we report the situation of the population that use the medical services of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in the state of Jalisco.

Methods: We used the abridged Reed-Merrell method, which shows the life expectancy in five-year age groups.

[Considerations concerning medical knowledge inherited in Mexico from 19th century: the diabetes mellitus case].

In Mexico, as in the entire Western world, during the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th century, medical knowledge developed in a remarkable way and the case of diabetes mellitus was not the exception. This situation, which arose on the basis of the antique paradigm, and which in turn was overthrown by the positivism as the emergent paradigm (with its clinical and anatomical, as well as physiopathological and etiopathological viewpoints), was reflected during the 19th the century through its actors and the communications that opened the access of Mexican medicine to the modernity.

[Cognitive anthropology applied to the study of the causes of arterial hypertension in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México].

Background: In medical anthropology, culture is shared knowledge and it can be used to study cultural consensus for development of preventive and control actions in chronic diseases such as high blood pressure. The aim of this study was to characterize the semantic structure and level of cultural consensus regarding the causes of arterial hypertension in persons >15 years of age belonging to families of laborers from "Colonia Fabrica de Atemajac."

Methods: Using a propositive sample of 36 persons >15 year of age of both genders and divided into three age groups, we conducted an anthropological study.