Differential mortality in the urban territory of main cities in Colombia.

One of the main problems concerning the accumulation of population in the urban areas is directly related with the increment of the socio-economic, socio-spatial, and socio-demographic segregation.
The investigation presented here answers those questions by establishing the mortality profile in the four main Colombian cities. This research focuses on georeferencing, presenting the place of residence of the deceased on the city map, determining in this way the differences in the parameters of mortality related to the inhabited space. Building the mortality profile and locating it spatially, keeping in mind the deep socio-spatial segregation that is a constant in Colombian cities, allowed establishing a list of the socio-economic status of the deceased and determine the differences in the mortality parameters as another element contributing the socio-demographic urban segregation.
This study also analyses the question of the difference in life expectancy of population concerning their socio-economic condition. By means of analyzing the differences in the mortality profiles related with the housing site and linking them directly with the socio-economic status it was possible to establish the great differences existing in the life expectancy for someone born in Bogota.