… It is important to emphasize that not all excess deaths are due to COVID, but if we observe
the excess of deaths, in comparison with previous years, that can work as a good tool to …

… Table 1 summarizes the data sources and other important characteristics of the death
information used in this study and Additional file 1 provides the Latin America map with the …

… to prevent temperature-related deaths in Latin America, the present study characterized the
… all-cause and cause-specific mortality across 326 cities in 9 countries across Latin America. …

… excess of about 15 deaths per thousand live births, whereas in the second group the excess
is, on the average, about 50 deaths … overreporting of the ages at death or the prevalence of. …

… First, truncating would heavily affect the right-hand tail of the age-at-death distribution of
our benchmark, since most deaths in developed nations are currently concentrated in old age …

… excess mortality and related years of life lost in Guatemala in 2020. Drawing on my own
experience as a Latin American … 8000 excess deaths (approximately 10% relative excess). At its …

… These reductions might prevent homicides spreading to other parts of Latin America. Decision
… Causes of death were also organised in these five calendar years. We were able to match …

… The fact that there are marked differences in these death rates in the Latin American …
The increasing death rates from motor vehicle accidents and the very high death rates from …

… death in most countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. WHO forecasts indicate that the
number of deaths … public-health agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean. Surveillance …

… areas and tropical regions, report high rates of death due to infectious diseases The purpose
of this paper is to offer a general overview of some of these contrasts within Latin America …