Análisis espacial medioambiental de la mortalidad en el municipio de Madrid.

Abstract

The first purpose of this study is to compare mortality indicators in the 21 districts of Madrid for 1987-88 and 1995-96 periods. Mortality indicator used Aceptado: 15/V/2001. * Departamento de Ecología Humana y Población. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 353 Jaime Martín Moreno, et al. Análisis espacial medioambiental de la mortalidad... were the comparative mortality figure with the direct method. The second purpose is to identify differences in mortality between districts in function of certain socioeconomic factors. Socioeconomic indicators were the rate of unemployed, rate of people without studies, rate of people with high studies, rate of unskilled workers and the rate of managerial workers. The statistical correlation between socioeconomic indicators and mortality indicators was studied by Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. This study has detected significant differences in mortality between the 21 districts of Madrid and high correlation between mortality and socioeconomic indicators.