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TABLE 37
DEATHS DUE TO MEDICALLY TREATABLE DISEASES BY
SELECTED CAUSES AND GENDER
British Columbia, 1997-2001 and 2002

Table, Deaths Due to Medically Treatable Diseases by Selected Causes and Gender

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HIGHLIGHTS TO TABLE 37
  • The medically treatable diseases presented in this table were selected according to Charlton's definition based on mortality in specific age groups that could potentially be avoided through appropriate medical attention (see Glossary). There were 128 deaths in 2002 that were identified as medically treatable according to this definition.

  • Females accounted for 66 deaths from medically treatable diseases in 2002. Of the female deaths, almost three in seven (37.9%) were due to cervical cancer (25 deaths), more than one fifth (22.7%) were due to bacterial infections (15), and more than one in seven (13.6%) were due to pneumonia and unqualified bronchitis (9). In comparison, there were 62 male deaths (48.4%) from medically treatable diseases. In total, over a third (37.1%) of these male deaths were from bacterial infections (23), almost a third (30.6%) were due to hypertensive disease (19), and one in six (16.1%) were from pneumonia and unqualified bronchitis (10).

  • In the 1997-2001 period, three categories accounted for seven in ten (69.7%) of the 634 deaths from medically treatable diseases. These were cervical cancer (146 deaths), pneumonia and unqualified bronchitis (143), and bacterial infections (153).