Homicides In Mexico Reversed Life Expectancy Gains For Men And Slowed Them For Women, 2000–10
- 1 January 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 35 (1), 88-95
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0068
Abstract
Life 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. We found that life expectancy among males deteriorated from 2005 to 2010, compared to increases from 2000 to 2005. Females in most states experienced small gains in life expectancy between 2000 and 2010. The unprecedented rise in homicides after 2005 led to a reversal in life expectancy increases among males and a slowdown among females in most states in the first decade of the twenty-first century.Keywords
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