Disability and its impact on life expectancy: heterogeneity across Mexican states.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The percentage of the world's population with disabilities is estimated to be 16%, although its distribution and intensity varies within nations. We aim to disentangle the degree and types of disabilities, estimate the years spent with more severe disabilities, and analyze their distribution across states and between sexes in Mexico.

Methods

The Mexican Census of 2020 includes information on disabilities, which allows the study of its national distribution. We used life tables and the Sullivan method to calculate the number of years spent with disability (NYSD) and its percentage with respect to life expectancy for each state and each sex.

Results

In Mexico, the population with disabilities is estimated to be 16.5%. Of this total, 69% have milder disabiliti

SUBMITTER: Baptista EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11468073 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature