Heterogeneity in the causes of death among older adults in Northeastern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Tamires Carneiro
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Lima, Kenio Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3061
• topic: Idoso; Mortalidade; Causas de morte; Sistemas de informação; Estudo ecológico; Causas de morte; Pessoa Idosa; Anciano; Mortalidad; Causas de muerte; Sistemas de información; Aged; Mortality; Cause of death; Health information systems

This ecological study analyzes the differences in the scale of priorities of causes of death among older adults in Northeastern Brazil, from 2001 and 2015, according to three age groups: 60 to 69 years (sexagenarian), 70 to 79 years (septuagenarian), and 80 years or older (old-old). Data were collected from the Brazilian Mortality Information System (SIM) and analyzed descriptively by proportional mortality. A total of 2,461,383 deaths were recorded, most were old-old adults (44.2%), who died in the hospital environment (55.5%), men (50.8%), brown (49.0%), married (37.1%) and illiterate (34.5%). Cardiovascular diseases accounted for the highest rate of death, with more than 30% in all groups. Among the sexagenarian and septuagenarian, the order of priorities follows with neoplasms, ill-defined causes, endocrine, metabolic and nutritional diseases, and respiratory diseases. Among the old-old, the scale is followed by ill-defined causes, respiratory diseases, neoplasms and endocrine, metabolic and nutritional diseases. This suggests that the old-old adults require specific attention from the other older population, especially regarding the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases, as well as better determination of the underlying cause in death certificates.