Chapter 2 - For The Safety of Canadian Children And Youth - Public Health Agency of Canada

Chapter 2

Injury-Related Mortality and Hospitalization Disparities

HIGHLIGHTS

The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the disparities in rates of injury-related hospitalization and death among children and youth according to region, family income and ethnic background:

• analysis of rates of hospitalization and death by region of residence;
• analysis of rates by income quintile;
• analysis of rates of injury-related deaths among young Status Indians as compared with the rates for Canadian children and youth as a whole;
• analysis of rates of injury-related deaths among Canadian children and youth as compared with the rates among the same age groups in the United States, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Sweden.
  

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CHAPTER 2
Injury-Related Mortality and Hospitalization Disparities