| Abstract [eng] |
The World Health Organization (WHO) has and continuously updates the leading causes of death around the world. The ones that are highlighted by the WHO are ischemic heart disease (IHD), stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lower respiratory tract infections (LRI), and neonatal conditions. This paper explores the leading 6 causes of death for both sexes, age group between 45-64 in Uruguay, Brazil, and Kenya in the time period of 2013-2019 in order to identify the causes of mortality and compare them with the worldwide ones. After the research, it was observed that there is a variation between Uruguay’s Brazil’s and Kenya’s causes of death and the ones that are presented by the WHO worldwide. Uruguay shares the two leading causes of death in IHD as well as stroke and COPD, however, the list is also dominated by cancers such as trachea, bronchus and lungs cancer and breast cancer. In Brazil, IHD, stroke and LRIs are present however, trachea, bronchus and lungs cancers, diabetes mellitus and liver cirrhosis are in the group of leading causes of death. Kenya, similarly, to Uruguay and Brazil has IHD, stroke and LRI in the leading causes of death, however also other diseases as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and liver cirrhosis, the latter of which takes the first position in the list of causes of death. |
