Author:

• GUILLERMO JULIAN GONZALEZ-PEREZ - González-Pérez, G. J. - GUADALAJARA - <ggonzal@cencar.udg.mx>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2307-0186

Co-author(s):

• MARIA GUADALUPE VEGA-LOPEZ - Vega-Lopez, M. G. - <mgvega.lopez@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1781-2596

Abstract:

This study seeks determining the differences in the behavior of youth mortality in Mexico according to selected causes, by sex and extreme levels of municipal marginalization in two triennia (2004-2006 and 2015-2017) and establish a relationship between the differences found, the social environment and the availability of health resources and services. Using official data, Years of Life Expectancy Lost (YLEL) between 0 and 85 years old -and the YLEL by the age group 15-29 years old- were calculated for 15 of the Mexico’s leading causes of death in both triennia; YLEL were calculated by municipalities grouped according to marginalization level in two categories: high and very high marginalization (HvHM) and low and very low (LvLM). Violent deaths (especially homicide) are the main causes of death in young women and men throughout Mexico - regardless of the level of marginalization - and increased substantially between both triennia studied; men aged 15 to 29 in municipalities with HvHM had an excess of YLEL compared to those in municipalities with LvLM in thirteen of the 15 causes analyzed in 2004-2006 and in all causes in 2015-2017, while for women the figure was thirteen of 15 in each triennium. That reflects the unfair disadvantages to which youth people in HvHM municipalities are exposed.

Keywords:

mortality; social marginalization; health equity; adolescent; Mexico

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