[Analysis of maternal deaths in Mexico occurred during 2009].

Background: Mexico reported 955 maternal deaths in 2011, with a ratio of 49 deaths per 100,000 live births. For 2015, the WHO commitment is to reduce the ratio to 22, equivalent to 415 maternal deaths.

Methods: it is a descriptive and retrospective study.

[The dengue fever in Mexico. Knowledge for improving the quality in health].

Dengue is a systemic infectious disease of viral etiology, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. It causes between 50 and 100 million cases annually over 100 countries. In most of the cases it presents as influenza-like illness or undifferentiated fever and more than 500,000 patients develop dengue hemorrhagic fever.

[Analysis of dengue fever deaths in Mexico: 2009].

Objective: to describe the dengue fever mortality.

Methods: a descriptive and retrospective study including 104 files reported deaths caused by dengue fever during 2009 to march 2010, was done.

Results: sixty (58 %) were women and 44 (42 %) men.