Statistical Services - BC Vital Statistics Agency

TABLE 36
POTENTIAL YEARS OF LIFE LOST BY LOCAL HEALTH AREA
EXTERNAL CAUSES OF DEATH (AGE UNDER 75 YEARS)
British Columbia, 1997-2001 AND 2002

Table, Potential Years of Life Lost by Local Health Area - External Causes of Death (Age Under 75 Years)

Table, Potential Years of Life Lost by Local Health Area - External Causes of Death (Age Under 75 Years)

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FIGURE 21
EXTERNAL CAUSES OF DEATH BY LOCAL HEALTH AREA
(AGE UNDER 75 YEARS)
British Columbia, 1997-2001

Table, External Causes of Death by Local Health Area

Table, External Causes of Death by Local Health Area

HIGHLIGHTS TO TABLE 36/FIGURE 21

There were 6 Local Health Areas (LHAs) with statistically significant and high Potential Years of Life Lost Index (PYLLI) for under 75 years of age, for external causes of death or accidents and violence, based on at least five deaths in 2002. These LHAs, along with their PYLLI values for 2002 (number of deaths in parentheses) were:

028 Quesnel (19) 2.71

024 Kamloops (62) 2.20

162 Vancouver Downtown E. Side (43) 2.15

048 Howe Sound (19) 2.07

065 Cowichan (21) 1.95

072/084 Camp. R./V.I. West (22) 1.90
From the above LHAs, Quesnel, Kamloops and Vancouver Downtown E. Side also had statistically significant and high PYLLI values for external causes of death (age under 75 years) in 1997-2001.
15 LHAs had PYLLI values for external causes in 2002 that were statistically significant and low, based on five or more deaths. The PYLLI for the five lowest LHAs (number of deaths in parentheses) were:

038 Richmond (18) 0.34

043 Coquitlam (28) 0.43

041 Burnaby (31) 0.44

044 North Vancouver (22) 0.46

062 Sooke (9) 0.50
All of the above LHAs also had statistically significant and low PYLLI values for external causes of death (age under 75 years) in 1997-2001.
In the 1997-2001 period, a total of 20 LHAs had PYLLI values for external causes that were statistically significant and high. The five LHAs with the highest statistically significant index values for this five-year period (number of deaths in parentheses) were:

162 Vancouver Downtown E. Side (482) 3.80

087/094 Stikine/Telegraph Creek (11) 3.48

031 Merritt (62) 2.93

016 Keremeos (17) 250

056 Nechako (70) 2.27
In the 1997-2001 period, 13 LHAs had PYLLI values for external causes that were statistically significant and low, based on five or more deaths. The five LHAs with the lowest index values that were statistically significant for this five-year period (number of deaths in parentheses) were:

037 Delta (95) 0.47

038 Richmond (169) 0.48

164 Vancouver West Side (131) 0.50

045 West Vancouver-Bowen Is. (50) 0.51

044 North Vancouver (154) 0.58

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