Poverty, disease and death in Argentina
We analyze the relationship between the gross domestic product of Argentina and trends in infant, maternal and infectious morbi-mortality, through the application of descriptive correlational statistical techniques both to official and secondary data. In the period under study, national wealth showe...
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We analyze the relationship between the gross domestic product of Argentina and trends in infant, maternal and infectious morbi-mortality, through the application of descriptive correlational statistical techniques both to official and secondary data. In the period under study, national wealth showed a high rate of growth whereas infant mortality increased in 2007, even in provinces that are well provided with sanitary resources. Death of infants under one year of age by infectious diseases (e.g. acute respiratory infection and septicaemia) increased. In the last year studied there was a proportional increase in respiratory diseases and tumours in children between 1 and 4 years. Two noticeable features maternal mortality were the extreme youth of the deceased and the high incidence of direct obstetrical deaths. Infectious mortality rate adjusted by age maintained its value but showed an increase in Buenos Aires City. Congenital syphilis and leptospirosis morbidities also increased. Infant mortality rates due to social inequality showed a 3:1 ratio. Infant mortality correlates directly with illiteracy, poverty and lack of stable employment and inversely with potable water, sewage, urbanization, personal wealth and availability of medical personnel, and does not correlate with the presence of public health care. We conclude that national wealth variation is not associated to health improvement and that the availability of health care services does not guarantee better demographic indicators. Correlation of variables indicates that morbidity and mortality are strongly associated to income distribution and that health care services do not seem to have achieved the goal of levelling inequality, since there is no correlation between the factor that groups conditions reflecting income distribution inequality and the factor reflecting the supply of care services with or without patient admission, such as the current private outpatient’s services. |
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I10-R360-article-71062025-04-03T12:07:27Z Poverty, disease and death in Argentina Pobreza, enfermedad y muerte en Argentina Tafani, Roberto Gaspio, Nuria Pobreza Enfermedad muerte desarrollo poverty disease death development We analyze the relationship between the gross domestic product of Argentina and trends in infant, maternal and infectious morbi-mortality, through the application of descriptive correlational statistical techniques both to official and secondary data. In the period under study, national wealth showed a high rate of growth whereas infant mortality increased in 2007, even in provinces that are well provided with sanitary resources. Death of infants under one year of age by infectious diseases (e.g. acute respiratory infection and septicaemia) increased. In the last year studied there was a proportional increase in respiratory diseases and tumours in children between 1 and 4 years. Two noticeable features maternal mortality were the extreme youth of the deceased and the high incidence of direct obstetrical deaths. Infectious mortality rate adjusted by age maintained its value but showed an increase in Buenos Aires City. Congenital syphilis and leptospirosis morbidities also increased. Infant mortality rates due to social inequality showed a 3:1 ratio. Infant mortality correlates directly with illiteracy, poverty and lack of stable employment and inversely with potable water, sewage, urbanization, personal wealth and availability of medical personnel, and does not correlate with the presence of public health care. We conclude that national wealth variation is not associated to health improvement and that the availability of health care services does not guarantee better demographic indicators. Correlation of variables indicates that morbidity and mortality are strongly associated to income distribution and that health care services do not seem to have achieved the goal of levelling inequality, since there is no correlation between the factor that groups conditions reflecting income distribution inequality and the factor reflecting the supply of care services with or without patient admission, such as the current private outpatient’s services. En este trabajo se analiza la relación entre la variación del Producto bruto interno de Argentina y el comportamiento de la morbi-mortalidad infantil, materna y por infecciosas. Se utilizan técnicas estadísticas descriptivas y correlacionales sobre datos oficiales y secundarios. La riqueza creció en el período observado a tasas elevadas. La tasa de mortalidad infantil aumentó en 2007, aún en provincias bien cubiertas con recursos sanitarios. La muerte de menores de un año creció por infecciosas como la Infección respiratoria aguda o septicemias. Hubo un aumento proporcional en el último año considerado, de los niños de 1 a 4 años por enfermedades respiratorias y tumores. De la muerte materna llama la atención la juventud de las mujeres y la causa de muerte “obstétricas directas”. La tasa de mortalidad por infecciosas ajustada para la edad, se mantiene pero aumenta notablemente en Capital Federal. La morbilidad de sífilis congénita y leptospirosis va en aumento. La mortalidad infantil por inequidad social exhibe una razón de tasas de 3:1. En ese sentido, la muerte infantil correlaciona en forma directa con el analfabetismo, la pobreza y la ausencia de trabajo estable, en forma inversa con el agua potable, desagües cloacales, urbanización, riqueza personal y presencia de médicos y no presenta relación alguna con las instituciones de salud. La conclusión es que ni las variaciones de la riqueza nacional, se asocian necesariamente a mejoras uniformes de salud, ni los servicios garantizan mejores indicadores poblacionales. La correlación de variables indica, que la morbilidad y la mortalidad están fuertemente asociadas a la distribución del ingreso y que los servicios de atención no parecen cumplir con el objetivo de disminuir las desigualdades, dada la falta de vinculación entre el factor que agrupa las condiciones que reflejan desigualdad en la distribución del ingreso y el factor que refleja la oferta de servicios públicos con y sin internación como la oferta ambulatoria privada. Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC 2014-04-04 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/7106 10.31052/1853.1180.v13.n1.7106 Revista de Salud Pública; Vol. 13 Núm. 1 (2009); 18-32 1852-9429 1853-1180 10.31052/1853.1180.v13.n1 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/7106/8180 Derechos de autor 1969 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |