Mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases in selected countries of Latin America at the turn of the millennium

Mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases in selected countries of Latin America at the turn of the millennium Abstract This thesis deals with a group of causes of death called Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases defined by The International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate mortality of this group of causes of death in selected Latin American countries at the turn of the millennium. It is generally known that in developing countries mortality rates from infectious and parasitic diseases are higher than in developed areas, where in the context of an epidemiological transition, when infectious diseases tend to be replaced by degenerative (civilization) diseases, mortality rates from infectious and parasitic diseases are significantly decreased. The main task was therefore to find out whether there is a reduction in mortality rates from infectious diseases in selected Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru). The intensity of mortality is expressed by standardized mortality rate and age-specific mortality rate which reach different values across countries, but a downward trend in mortality rates has been found in all countries over the reporting period. It was also found that groups of diseases such as..