Triple burden of mortality in municipalities in Minas Gerais according to the Global Burden of Disease study, 2000 to 2018.

Abstract

To describe the temporal evolution of the main causes of mortality in Minas Gerais (MG), Brazil, and to verify the association with socioeconomic indicators. This is a mixed ecological study in which age-standardized mortality rates were calculated per 100,000 inhabitants due to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), communicable, neonatal and nutritional diseases (NNDs) and external causes (ECs) for 853 municipalities in MG, according to data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, in the three-year periods 2000 to 2002 (T1), 2009 to 2011 (T2) and 2016 to 2018 (T3). Between T1 and T3, mortality due to NCDs predominated; there was a 22.4% decrease in the rates for NCDs (553.6 to 429.9) and a 29% decrease in the rates for NCDs (83 to 58.9), and a 3.5% increase in EC (62.2 to 64.4). The correlation coefficients were positive (R > 0.70; p < 0.05) and higher mortality rates were found in areas with worse socioeconomic status.