Publications by authors named "Victor M Garcia-Guerrero"
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- The study aimed to understand how preventable deaths affect life expectancy differences between Mexico and Spain, focusing on ages 30-75.
- It utilized a linear decomposition analysis and life tables to assess the potential life expectancy gains from eliminating preventable deaths, examining variations by education, sex, and age.
- Results showed that low-educated Mexicans could gain significantly more years of life by addressing preventable deaths, highlighting the importance of healthcare access and effective public policy in reducing mortality gaps.
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- The paper evaluates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality rates in six Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru, focusing on monthly excess mortality data.
- From April 2020 onward, there was a significant rise in mortality levels beyond typical monthly figures, particularly noticeable in Mexico and Peru by late 2020.
- The study also highlights that poorer socioeconomic conditions correlated with higher excess mortality rates, leading to a decrease in life expectancy by 2-10 years across these nations.
The new coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a major impact on mortality and survival in most countries of the world, with Mexico being one of the countries most heavily impacted by the pandemic. In this paper, we study the impact of COVID-19 deaths on period life expectancy at birth in Mexico by sex and state. We focus on the loss of life expectancy at different ages as a geographically comparable measure of the pandemic's impact on the population in 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMexico's epidemic of violence and its public health significance on average length of life.
J Epidemiol Community Health
February 2017
Objectives: A disproportionate number of homicides have caused Mexican life expectancy to stagnate during the new millennium. No efforts currently exist to quantify the harm of violent acts on the lives of the general population. We quantified the impact of perceived vulnerability on life expectancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLife expectancy in Mexico increased for more than six decades but then stagnated in the period 2000-10. This decade was characterized by the enactment of a major health care reform-the implementation of the Seguro Popular de Salud (Popular Health Insurance), which was intended to provide coverage to the entire Mexican population-and by an unexpected increase in homicide mortality. We assessed the impact on life expectancy of conditions amenable to medical service-those sensitive to public health policies and changes in behaviors, homicide, and diabetes-by analyzing mortality trends at the state level.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: In the first decade of the 21st century, the Mexican life expectancy changed from a long trend of increase to stagnation. These changes concur with an increase in deaths by homicides that the country experienced in that decade, and an obesity epidemic that had developed over the last decades of the 20th century. We quantify the impact of causes of death on life expectancy from 2000 to 2010.
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