AVOIDABLE DEATHS FROM ONCOLOGY DISEASE IN AKTOBE REGION

Abstract

Introduction. Population health is the primary outcome of a health care system. Measuring the performance of a health care 
system is essential to assessing the effectiveness of existing programs. Therefore, the aim of our study to assess the avoidable 
deaths from oncological disease in Aktobe region. 
Materials and methods: We extracted data from the National research center for health development in Aktobe region by urban 
and rural area. In calculation population by age; death rates from oncologic diseases from 2019 to 2023, by gender and 5-year age 
group (0, 1–4, 5–9, 69) were included. Join point regression used to identify the average annual percentage change.  
Results. Avoidable deaths from oncological disease decrease from 29.92 to 27.94 per 100000 population during 2019-2023. 
The preventable deaths from oncological diseases per 100000 populations fluctuated between 17.20 to 17.08, where the peak 
increase was in 2021 to 19.51, whereas treatable deaths rate decreased from 15.06 to 10.87 in studied years The avoidable deaths 
was higher among male and rural residents. The absolute changes were for avoidable deaths – 1.98, where preventable was -1.86 
and treatable -1.98. Relative changes were -0.07, with the difference between preventable and treatable as -0.11 to -0.01. 
Conclusion. The leading causes of avoidable death were colorectal and lung cancer. Despite some reduction in avoidable 
mortality, it remains high among rural residents and males, which requires studying the causes and developing measures among 
them.