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TABLE 38:

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Note: SMR-Standardized Mortality Ratio. Refer to Figure 1 to clarify geographical location of Local Health Areas.

• The deaths identified as medically treatable (see Glossary) occurred across the province, although the numbers were relatively small in Local Health Areas (LHAs) outside the lower mainland. In 2000, there was only one LHA with a statistically significant and high Standardized Mortality Ratio (SMR) for medically treatable diseases. The ratio for this LHA (with number of medically treatable deaths in parentheses) was:
  

  040

  New Westminster

  3.32

  (5)

• There were no LHAs with statistically significant and low SMRs for medically treatable diseases in 2000.

• In 2000, 41 LHAs had no deaths due to medically treatable diseases. The small number of deaths from medically treatable diseases in any individual year limits the scope for analysis.

• Over the 1995-1999 period, there were two LHAs with SMRs that were statistically significant and high for deaths due to medically treatable diseases. The ratios for these LHAs (with number of medically treatable deaths in parentheses) were:
  

  162	Vancouver Downtown E. Side	4.68	(39)
  075	Mission	2.15	(12)

• There were three LHAs with statistically significant and low SMRs for deaths due to medically treatable diseases during the 1995-1999 period:
  

  038	Richmond	0.45	(12)
  164	Vancouver West Side	0.47	(9)
  023	Central Okanagan	0.57	(13)

• Eight LHAs had no deaths from medically treatable diseases during the 1995-1999 period.