What are the causes of death in Mexico?

The World Health Organization will use the celebration of World Health Day 2022 to draw the world’s attention to the urgent measures needed to keep people and the planet healthy and encourage change so that societies care about physical and emotional well-being.

Mexico has many diseases that are among the leading causes of death, so it is important to know the risk factors to try to correct what we are doing wrong or what is harmful to our health.

What are the main causes of morbidity in Mexico?

Since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic officially began in Mexico, the disease has positioned itself among the most common causes of death in the country, highlighting its danger to patients over 25 years of age. + Salud FacMed magazine published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Since UNAM indexed all adults aged 25-64 in the same cohort, it was determined that the most common cause of death in adults was COVID-19, although death rates from the coronavirus decreased from 2020 to 2021 through vaccination. , according to data collected by Dr. Guadalupe Soto Estrada, an academician from the Department of Public Health, Onam University School of Medicine.

Official figures from the Ministry of Health show that so far more than 323,403 deaths due to COVID-19 have been recorded, most of which were recorded in the first year of the epidemic that struck the world.

According to Inegi data, during the period from January to June 2021 the three main causes among Mexicans are:

1- COVID-19 was the main cause of death nationwide, with the number of infections reaching 145,159 cases.
2.- Heart disease: 113,899
3. – Diabetes mellitus with 74,418 cases.
4.- Malignant tumors.
5. – Influenza and pneumonia.
6.- Liver disease.
7.- Cerebrovascular disease.
8.- Assaults (murder).
9.- Accidents.
10.- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Seniors 65 years and over

Since the onset of the health crisis, adults aged 65 years or over have become the most vulnerable to complications and deaths in the event of SARS-CoV-2 infection, making it one of the three leading causes of death in this group.

• COVID-19
• heart disease;
• diabetic.