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<journal-id>2221-2434</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Finlay]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Finlay]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2221-2434</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Cienfuegos. Centro Provincial de información de Ciencias Médicas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2221-24342019000300197</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Método de mortalidad ponderado según múltiples causas de muerte]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Weighted Mortality Method According to Multiple Causes of Death]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Fernández González]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Lisbeth]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Seuc Jo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Armando Humberto]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Rodríguez García]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Carlos Antonio]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Nacional de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[La Habana ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>9</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>197</fpage>
<lpage>209</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2221-24342019000300197&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2221-24342019000300197&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2221-24342019000300197&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN  Fundamento:  los estudios de mortalidad muestran la muerte como un fenómeno unicausal, por lo que se considera necesaria la discusión de métodos que incluyan en el análisis, todas las enfermedades registradas en los certificados médicos de defunción.  Objetivo:  identificar las condiciones bajo las cuales el enfoque multicausal ponderado difiere del enfoque unicausal clásico.  Método:  se realizó un estudio de tipo descriptivo y se aplicó un método de ponderación para calcular las tasas de mortalidad a partir de las múltiples causas de muerte de los certificados médicos de defunción y el método clásico que usa exclusivamente la causa básica. El universo lo conformó el total de fallecidos en el primer semestre del año 2016 en La Habana, según certificados médicos de defunción. Se identificaron las causas en las que los dos métodos mostraron mayores diferencias en las tasas de mortalidad resultantes. El procesamiento se realizó mediante el paquete estadístico IBM-SPSS versión 21,0.  Resultados:  enfermedades como las cardiopatías, demencia y Alzheimer, tumores malignos y asma no mostraron diferencias entre las tasas calculadas por ambos métodos; enfermedades como la hipertensión arterial esencial primaria, diabetes mellitus y neumonía, mostraron diferencias importantes.  Conclusiones:  el método multicausal ponderado difiere del método unicausal clásico, a medida que la causa de interés aparezca más como secundaria y menos como básica; la tasa de mortalidad según el método multicausal ponderado es mayor que la del método clásico para la correspondiente causa.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  Foundation:  mortality study usually shows death as a single-caused phenomenon, so it is considered necessary to discuss methods which include in the analysis, all diseases recorded in medical death certificates.  Objective:  to identify the conditions under which the weighted multi-causal approach differs from the classical single causal approach.  Method:  a descriptive study was conducted and a weighting method was applied to calculate mortality rates from the multiple causes of death of medical death certificates and the classic method that exclusively uses the basic cause. The universe was the total of deaths in the first semester of 2016 in Havana according to death certificates. The causes in which the two methods showed greater differences were identified. Data processing was carried out using the statistical package IBM-SPSS version 21.0.  Results:  diseases such as heart disease, dementia and Alzheimer's, malignant tumors and asthma did not show differences between the rates calculated by both methods; diseases such as primary essential hypertension, diabetes mellitus and pneumonia, showed important differences.  Conclusions:  the weighted multi-causal method differs from the classic single causal method, as the cause of interest appears more as secondary and less as basic; the mortality rate according to the weighted multicausal method is higher than that of the classical method for the corresponding cause.]]></p></abstract>
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