[Adult mortality decline in Costa Rica]. / La disminucion de la mortalidad de adultos en Costa Rica.
Notas Poblacion
; 22(60): 103-39, 1994 Dec.
Article
in Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12290224
"This paper examines the adult-mortality transition in Costa Rica and its determinants. The risk of dying declined by 80% for young adults and by 40% for old adults from 1920 to 1990. The fastest decline took place in the 1950s for young-adult ages and in the late 1980s for old-adult ages.... By 1990, about 40% of Costa Rican deaths are caused by accidents and violence at young-adult ages and by cardiovascular diseases at old ages. Infectious and nutritional-related conditions (especially respiratory tuberculosis and malaria) account for three-fourths of the adult-mortality decline between 1951 and 1971, but only for 30% since that year on." (SUMMARY IN ENG)
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Mortality
/
Cause of Death
/
Adult
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
/
Risk_factors_studies
Country/Region as subject:
America central
/
America do norte
/
Costa rica
Language:
Es
Journal:
Notas Poblacion
Year:
1994
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
Costa Rica