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Objectives: To evaluate variability in life expectancy at birth in small areas, describe the spatial pattern of life expectancy, and examine associations between small-area socioeconomic characteristics and life expectancy in a mid-sized city of a middle-income country., Design: Cross-sectional, using data from death registries (2015-2018) and socioeconomic characteristics data from the 2010 national population census., Participants/setting: 40 898 death records in 99 small areas of the city of Córdoba, Argentina. We summarised variability in life expectancy at birth by using the difference between the 90th and 10th percentile of the distribution of life expectancy across small areas (P90-P10 gap) and evaluated associations with small-area socioeconomic characteristics by calculating a Slope Index of Inequality in linear regression., Primary Outcome: Life expectancy at birth., Results: The median life expectancy at birth was 80.3 years in women (P90-P10 gap=3.2 years) and 75.1 years in men (P90-P10 gap=4.6 years). We found higher life expectancies in the core and northwest parts of the city, especially among women. We found positive associations between life expectancy and better small-area socioeconomic characteristics, especially among men. Mean differences in life expectancy between the highest versus the lowest decile of area characteristics in men (women) were 3.03 (2.58), 3.52 (2.56) and 2.97 (2.31) years for % adults with high school education or above, % persons aged 15-17 attending school, and % households with water inside the dwelling, respectively. Lower values of % overcrowded households and unemployment rate were associated with longer life expectancy: mean differences comparing the lowest versus the highest decile were 3.03 and 2.73 in men and 2.57 and 2.34 years in women, respectively., Conclusion: Life expectancy is substantially heterogeneous and patterned by socioeconomic characteristics in a mid-sized city of a middle-income country, suggesting that small-area inequities in life expectancy are not limited to large cities or high-income countries., Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared., (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.)

The Rheumatic Diseases are a problems of public health than greater attention they require of the sanitary authorities of many countries. The absence in Córdoba Argentina, of investigations to know the magnitude of this problem, they motivated this work. The objective of this work it was to know the frequency with which these illnesses they are perceived for the population in Córdoba, Argentina. Was made a probabilistic sampling, with a size of sample of 429 individuals, with a level of 95% confidence. It is concluded that the rheumatic affections constitute a suffering perceived for more than the half of the population over 20 years, with a predominance in the women. The osteoarthrosis is a most common condition the defined rheumatic disease, whereas in the group of the inespecifics rheumatic disorders the pain of neck was that of greater prevalence.