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Condiciones de salud en el territorio: una aproximación de largo plazo desde las causas de mortalidad en Uruguay

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  • Paola Azar

    (Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economía)

  • Carolina Roman

    (Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economía)

Abstract

This paper explores the Uruguayan epidemiological transition from a regional perspective. It covers the period between the end of the 19th century and the end of the 1960s. Using an especially elaborated database on total mortality and cause of death rates at the department level, we compute beta and sigma convergence, identify regions featured by high or low mortality rates and implement a shift-share analysis on the components of the mortality rate for the 19 departments. Our results show that the pace of beta convergence was heterogeneous across regions while dispersion measures displayed no statistically significant sigma convergence both for total and non-preventable deaths. The local component played a role to explain the mortality level particularly after 1930 and regional income levels are not enough to explain why preventable deaths remained high in some territories. The analysis provides new insights on the dynamics of the epidemiological transition and the extent at which the improved living conditions, typical of this historical period, effectively reached the whole territory.

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  • Paola Azar & Carolina Roman, 2023. "Condiciones de salud en el territorio: una aproximación de largo plazo desde las causas de mortalidad en Uruguay," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 23-23, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
    • Handle: RePEc:ulr:wpaper:dt-23-23
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    Keywords

    epidemiological transition; mortality; Latin America; Uruguay; 20th century;
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    JEL classification:

    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • N36 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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