The pandemic took a month of life from Samnite citizens. More precisely, 36 days for men and 23 for women. A fact that may appear comforting in the context of Campaniamore worrying when compared at a national level, given that the twentieth worst result arrives.
It is the price you pay for slowing down diagnosis and treatment but also prevention. This was revealed by a study conducted by the Nebo Study Center, specialized in studies and analyzes in the healthcare sector, which has developed a specific standardized index, that of “per capita days lost”, which measures in particular the share of mortality that can be avoided with better coping styles. life and prevention and with timely diagnosis and treatment. Aspects on which the COVID-19 had a strong impact: if on the one hand the lockdown led to a reduction in road accidents with an immediate effect on the relative mortality, on the other the increased pressure on health structures and the fear of contagion caused dangerous delays in diagnoses and treatments whose consequences they continue to impact each other. With significant differences: the research highlights how the heterogeneity of results already present at a regional level is amplified on a provincial basis, just as the reading by sex highlights a male incidence that is almost double that of females. It is true, therefore, that in Campania (and in the South in general) deaths, especially within the age of 74, which can be avoided with better lifestyles and prevention and with timely diagnosis and treatment, remain higher than in the rest of Italy, but among the provinces there are substantial differences.
THE DATA
The days of life statistically lost, which in Italy are 26, in Sannio It is in the Salerno they become almost 30, threshold exceeded ad Avellino until it becomes 32 a Caserta and 34 y Naples. In the national ranking (led by the province of Catanzaro with 35 «lost days», followed by Syracuse And Crotone) Naples occupies the fourth position and Caserta the sixth, while Avellino is placed in box 17, Benevento at 20th e Salerno at 23. The best results in Italy are those recorded at Treviso and Monza Brianzawith 21 days: territories not at all spared by Covid, on the contrary, but where evidently the residents’ approach to the world of healthcare has remained more constant.
The difference between the sexes is significant: throughout Italy men have paid and are paying more than women for having postponed analyzes and investigations, but in Campania this happens even more. Thus, at a national level the gap between days lost says 32 for men and 20 for women, in Benevento they become 36 for men and 22 for women, in Avellino 37 and 23 respectively, in Caserta 40 and 24, in Naples 40 and 27, in Salerno 35 and 23. A trend that also extends to mortality statistics: the average age in the province of Benevento is close to 82 years, the highest in Campania, in line with the national data. Again with a significant difference between the sexes: 79 years for men and 84 for women.
THE PAINTING
The Nebo study was conducted on data relating to deaths recently released by Istat and is based on the definition of avoidable causes drawn up by OECD and Eurostat. The results by province, sex, age and cause can be consulted on modernitaevitabile.it, the portal dedicated to the Mev(i) Project – «Avoidable mortality (with intelligence)». Since the 1970s, avoidable mortality has represented one of the main tools for evaluating health policies adopted to reduce deaths due to causes for which one should not die, a resource that becomes even more crucial for the epidemiological analyzes of this recent and singular historical context, also conditioned by multiple determinants (demographic, social, economic).
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