Title: Mortality by income level in urban Canada.

POPLINE Document Number: 245002

Author(s):

Wigle DT
Mao Y

Source citation:

Ottawa, Canada, Minister of National Health and Welfare, Health Protection Branch, 1980. xii, 47, 53, xii p.

Abstract:

"Mortality by income level in Canada was studied based on analysis of deaths by census tract in twenty-one census metropolitan areas during the decennial census year, 1971. Mortality rates for all diseases combined varied substantially by income level and this resulted in major differences in life expectancy. Males and females in income level 1 (high income) had life expectancies at birth that were, respectively, 6.2 and 2.9 years greater than those in income level 5. Similarly, persons in lower income levels experienced relatively high mortality rates for most individual diseases or groups of diseases." The authors note that "particularly large mortality differentials by income level were observed for cirrhosis of the liver, alcoholism, tuberculosis, pneumonia, chronic respiratory disease, peptic ulcer, fires, accidental falls and motor vehicle traffic accidents involving pedestrians." (EXCERPT)

Keywords:

Canada
Differential Mortality
Income
Causes of Death
Life Expectancy
Mortality
Government Publication
North America, Northern
Americas
Developed Countries
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Population
Socioeconomic Factors
Economic Factors
Length of Life