Análisis de la mortalidad en el Ecuador 1960 - 1999

Abstract

Mortality was studying at home as one of the most sensitive indicators of the health-disease situation in relation to the characteristics of the development of the country through the prevailing development models from the sixties until the end of this century . The models were considered for the study are: the exporting Agro, including the sixties, the model of import substitution to the 70 and the neoliberal model from the eighties corresponds. For the analysis of mortality has taken the following indicators: General Mortality, proportional mortality by age and sex, and child mortality; all the indicators are analyzed in each decade. It is noted that the exporting Agro model characterized by backwardness and poverty predominates mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases. In the import substitution model that matches petrolo export and foreign indebtedness, the health situation remains in their similar characteristics. Mortality on the neoliberal model with new profiles in which coexist enfermdades of human poverty and backwardness with the modernization, such as ischemic heart, traffic accidents, tumors, vascular disease and hypertensive brain, violence etc.