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Health Reports, Volume 20, Number 4
“Income disparities in health-adjusted life expectancy for Canadian adults, 1991 to 2001”
by Cameron McIntosh, Philippe Finès, Russell Wilkins and Michael C. Wolfson
Catalogue number: 82-003
Reference period: 1991 to 2001
Original release date: November 18, 2009
Corrections have been made to this product.
The publication was reloaded on September 9, 2010
Please note the following changes:
Data errors were found in: Table 4 (Remaining health-adjusted life expectancy (years) at age 25, by income decile and sex, Canada, 1991 to -2001); Figure 1 (Remaining life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy at age 25, by income decile, men, Canada, 1991 to 2001); Figure 2 (Remaining life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy at age 25, by income decile, women, Canada, 1991 to -2001); and Appendix Table C (Remaining health-adjusted life expectancy (years) at age 25, by educational attainment and sex, Canada, 1991 to 2001).
Resolution:
The data in these tables and charts for both the HTML and PDF versions were corrected and replaced.
The text was revised to reflect these corrections:
Results
Disparities in health-adjusted life expectancy
Third sentence (page 59) should read:
Disparities in health-adjusted life expectancy between the highest and lowest deciles were 14.1 years for men and 9.5 years for women, whereas the corresponding disparities in conventional life expectancy were only 7.4 and 4.5 years, respectively.
Discussion
First paragraph, third sentence (page 60) should read:
For both men and women at age 25, the difference in remaining health-adjusted life expectancy between the highest and lowest income groups was much larger than the corresponding difference in overall life expectancy: 6.8 years more for men, and 5.0 years more for women.
Second paragraph, third sentence (page 60) should read:
By contrast, in this analysis, which examines health-adjusted life expectancy at age 25, the difference between the highest income decile and the overall average was estimated at 5.8 years for men and 3.1 years for women. For men, this was around twice the impact of all cancers combined, while for women, it was about the same as the impact for all cancers combined.
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