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Table 1 All-cause standardized mortality ratios, ages 0–74, 1992–1996*

From: Geographic disparity in premature mortality in Ontario, 1992–1996

Planning Region

Males

Females

District Health Council

Males

Females

Public Health Unit

Males

Females

South West

1.07

1.06

Essex-Kent-Lambton

1.12

1.11

Windsor-Essex

1.10

1.10

      

Chatham-Kent

1.26

1.29

      

Lambton

1.05

0.97

   

Thames Valley

1.06

1.03

Middlesex-London

1.06

1.02

      

Elgin-St. Thomas

1.12

1.07

      

Oxford

1.05

1.04

   

Grey-Bruce-Huron-Perth

0.99

1.02

Grey-Bruce-Owen Sound

1.01

1.04

      

Huron

0.95

1.00

      

Perth

0.98

0.97

Central South

1.06

1.07

Grand River

1.10

1.12

Brant

1.13

1.14

      

Haldimand-Norfolk

1.08

1.09

   

Hamilton

1.06

1.07

Hamilton

1.06

1.07

   

Niagara

1.03

1.04

Niagara

1.03

1.04

Central West

0.85

0.89

Halton-Peel

0.79

0.84

Halton

0.79

0.87

      

Peel

0.79

0.83

   

Waterloo Region Wellington-Dufferin

0.96

0.97

Waterloo

0.96

0.96

      

Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph

0.96

0.98

Toronto

0.99

0.92

   

Toronto

0.99

0.92

Central East

0.92

0.96

Simcoe-York

0.89

0.94

Simcoe

1.05

1.05

      

York

0.78

0.87

   

Durham-Haliburton Kawartha-Pine Ridge

0.95

0.99

Durham

0.90

0.98

      

Haliburton-Kawartha Pine Ridge

0.98

0.96

      

Peterborough

1.04

1.03

East

1.01

1.05

Champlain

0.96

0.99

Ottawa-Carleton

0.88

0.95

      

Renfrew

1.08

1.08

      

Eastern Ontario

1.14

1.14

   

Southeastern Ontario

1.10

1.14

Kingston-Frontenac-Lennox-Addington

1.03

1.06

      

Hastings-Prince Edward

1.17

1.20

      

Leeds-Grenville-Lanark

1.12

1.16

North

1.21

1.20

Algoma-Cochrane-Manitoulin-Sudbury

1.25

1.23

Algoma

1.18

1.21

      

Porcupine

1.32

1.25

      

Sudbury

1.27

1.24

   

Muskoka-Nippissing- Parry Sound-Timiskaming

1.16

1.13

Muskoka-Parry Sound

1.06

1.01

      

North Bay

1.27

1.20

      

Timiskaming

1.23

1.31

   

Northwestern

1.19

1.20

Thunder Bay

1.14

1.17

      

Northwestern

1.28

1.27

  1. Data source: Vital Statistics Records, Office of the Registrar General, Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations. Notes: * All standardized mortality ratios are statistically different from 1.00 (p < 0.05) except the female Huron SMR