Health of Canadians Living in Census Metropolitan Areas

By Jason Gilmore

This report, the second in a series that develops statistical measures to shed light on issues of importance for Canada's largest urban areas, paints a statistical portrait of health in 25 census metropolitan areas. It found two main themes:

First, Canada's urban centres differ as widely as many of the world's industrialized countries do in terms of health outcomes, such as life expectancy at birth. The range in life expectancy among Canada's urban centres is nearly as large as the range among a number of OECD countries.

Second, there is a wide variation among the largest urban areas in terms of health-related lifestyles and behaviours, their health conditions and their health care needs.

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