ABSTRACT
This chapter examines mortality, health, and housing. Mortality includes infant mortality, which indicates the force of mortality relative to fertility in the first year of life. Crude and standardized mortality are measures of the overall impact of mortality on the population as a whole. Standardization adjusts mortality for age structural differences from state to state. Mortality is analyzed for the five major causes of death categories in Mexico, namely cardiovascular, respiratory, nutritional/metabolic/endocrine/immunity, trauma, and cancer. For these death causes, geographic and longitudinal changes are noted, as well as comparison among causes.
