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FactSheet
January 2000
RU 1 FS#1, s. of 2000

 

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . .

… cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the Ilocos Region?

  Cancer has consistently been one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the Ilocos Region. While it showed a declining trend from 1995-1997, the number of deaths caused by cancer increased by 41.7 percent in 1998 (1,696). Cancer has been claiming lives at an average of 34 persons annually in every 100,000 population.

Meanwhile, an annual average of 2,712 persons from 1994-1998 were confined due to cancer,

Leading Causes of Mortality in Region I

Mortality and Morbidity Cases
with the highest number of cases recorded in 1995 at 6,074. With a rate of almost 160 cases per 100,000 population in 1995, cancer was the third leading cause of morbidity in the said year next to acute respiratory infection (1,549) and diarrhea (1,095). While it decreased significantly from 1995 to 1996 (67.0 percent), morbidity due to cancer showed an increasing trend from 1996-1998, reaching 2,589 in 1998.

Definition: Morbidity - the frequency of disease and illness in a population
 

Table 2. Leading Causes of Morbidity, Region I: 1994-1998
(Rate per 100,000 population)

Cause

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

No. of Cases

Rate

No. of Cases

Rate

No. of Cases

Rate

No. of Cases

Rate

No. of Cases

Rate

Hypertension

7,692

194.52

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

Malnutrition

541

13.68

595

15.64

...

...

...

...

...

...

Acute Respiratory Infection

59,046

1,493.15

58,910

1,548.68

69,597

1,802.30

74,940

1,920.10

73,490

1,858.89

Diarrhea

30,190

763.44

41,638

1,094.62

42,874

1,110.27

43,492

1,114.35

43,940

1,111.44

Tuberculosis (All Forms)

3,832

96.90

5,878

154.53

9,716

251.61

9,835

251.99

9,643

243.91

Accidents

7,853

198.59

4,428

116.41

6,904

178.79

7,131

182.71

7,321

185.18

Cancer

689

17.42

6,074

159.68

2,003

51.87

2,206

56.52

2,589

65.49

Chicken Pox

313

7.92

653

17.17

1,816

47.03

1,932

49.50

1,301

32.91

Measles

586

14.82

619

16.27

595

15.41

583

14.94

492

12.44

Typhoid and Paratyphoid

652

16.49

3,191

83.89

389

10.07

429

10.99

436

11.03
Source of Basic Data: Department of Health, Regional Office I                                      Note: 1) . . . - No data available
                                                                                                                                                 2) Morbidity cases are new every year

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