Salud pública de México
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Salud pública de México · Sep 1989
[Years of potential life lost: their usefulness in the analysis of mortality in Mexico].
The evolution of the epidemiology of mortality in developing countries requires the use of indicators additional to cause specific mortality rates. This paper presents the leading causes of potential years of life lost in Mexico in 1983, by sex. ⋯ It was also useful to identify years of potential life lost attributable to specific age and sex groups. The use of years of potential life lost provides valuable information to epidemiologic mortality analysis.