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

Paola Azar () and Carolina Román
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Paola Azar: Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economía

No 23-23, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Instituto de Economía - IECON

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.

Keywords: epidemiological transition; mortality; Latin America; Uruguay; 20th century (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 N36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2023-12
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