Document 3160
 DOCN  M94A3160
 TI    AIDS mortality in Mexico: 1983-92. Years of potential productive life
       lost.
 DT    9412
 AU    Izazola-Licea JA; Valdez-Garcia M; del Rio C; CONADISA, Mexico.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):14 (abstract no. 028D). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94369415
 AB    OBJECTIVE. To estimate the cumulative number of years of potential
       productive life lost (YPPLL) due to AIDS in Mexico, and its distribution
       by occupation. METHODS. Sixty-five years was considered the upper limit
       of potential productive life in men and 60 in women. The distribution of
       AIDS cases by occupation was applied to the number of YPPLL. RESULTS.
       The most affected age group due to AIDS mortality is men 25-34 years
       old, its death rate varied from 1988 to 1992 from 3.2 to 12.9 per
       100,000 person/year respectively. The average age for AIDS death
       remained constant at 35 years old for both men and women. The total
       number of YPPLL for men were 207,016 and for women 30,333. The
       occupations with more YPPLL among men were: office workers with 32,709
       YPPLL, civil servicemen with 29,603, businessmen and clerks 17596,
       professionals 15122, blue collar workers 14905, and teachers 10765. For
       women, the largest number of YPPLL was among housewives with 17654,
       followed by office workers with 2,305. The number of AIDS cases is
       over-represented (as well as YPPLL) in the category of professionals,
       compared with the frequency of these trained personnel in the
       population; the number of housewives with AIDS (58% of AIDS cases in
       women) is slightly under the proportion of all adult women who reported
       to be housewives in the 1990 population census. CONCLUSIONS. Because of
       premature deaths AIDS has already had in Mexico a great economic and
       social impact. As the epidemic continues, one might expect AIDS to be
       one of the most important causes of YPPLL in our country.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*ECONOMICS/*MORTALITY  Adult
       *Economic Value of Life  *Efficiency  Female  Human  Male  Mexico
       Middle Age  Occupations/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA  MEETING ABSTRACT

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