Where you live may decide how soon you die

Where you live may decide how soon you die

Divide Hamilton into income quintiles, and the average age of death for the wealthiest 20 per cent is 81.4 years. Death comes years earlier with each step down the income ladder. By the bottom rung, the poorest 20 per cent of Hamiltonians die at 69—12 years sooner.

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The phenomenon isn’t unique to Hamilton. The district health unit in Sudbury, Ont., is a strong advocate for redefining what makes us healthy, and has compared the “most deprived” and “least deprived” areas of that city. Among the most deprived: births to teenage mothers were 205 per cent higher; infant mortality, 139 per cent higher; and premature death, 86 per cent higher. The health region in Saskatoon also looked at health disparities in their city. In six low-income neighbourhoods, rates of infant mortality were 448 per cent higher; teen births, 1,549 per cent higher; and suicide attempts, 1,458 higher. “Moral reasons aside, it is in our collective interest to reduce social disparity,” the health region concluded.

What are you going to do to change this????