%0 Journal Article
%T Earnings implications of person years lost life expectancy among Canada's aboriginal peoples
%A Beavon
%A Daniel
%A Gyimah
%A Stephen Obeng
%A White
%A Jerry P.
%A Maxim
%A Paul S.
%J Canadian Studies in Population
%D 2003
%I Canadian Population Society
%X English Overall, Canada has one of the world's highest national life expectancies.This benefit is not shared by Canada's aboriginal population, however, which has a life expectancyapproximately seven years less than the general population. The Aboriginal population also differs inthat it has a higher fertility rate and higher mortality rates among infants and young adults. One ofthe consequences of the mortality differential is that the number of person years of lost life (PYLL)expectancy is large for the Aboriginal community in comparison to the general population. Whileseveral studies have focused on the causes of differential mortality, this study examines some of thesocioeconomic consequences of differences in PYLL. Examining wage labor income, for example, wedetermine that the PYLL differential translates into an expected wage and salary loss of approximately$1.56 billion. French Dans l¡¯ensemble, l¡¯esp¨¦rance de vie au Canada est une des plus longues aumonde. Cependant, la population autochtone du Canada ne partage pas cetavantage, son esp¨¦rance de vie ¨¦tant d¡¯environ sept ans inf¨¦rieure ¨¤ celle de lapopulation g¨¦n¨¦rale. La population autochtone se distingue aussi par le faitqu¡¯elle a un taux de fertilit¨¦ sup¨¦rieur et un taux de mortalit¨¦ sup¨¦rieur chez lesenfants et les jeunes adultes. En cons¨¦quence, l¡¯esp¨¦rance du nombre d¡¯ann¨¦espotentielles de vie perdues (APVP) est consid¨¦rable pour la communaut¨¦autochtone par rapport ¨¤ la population g¨¦n¨¦rale. Alors qu¡¯il existe d¨¦j¨¤ plusieurs¨¦tudes sur les causes de la diff¨¦rence du taux de mortalit¨¦, cette ¨¦tude enexamine certaines des cons¨¦quences socio-¨¦conomiques. En examinant lerevenu provenant d¡¯un salaire par exemple, nous pouvons ¨¦tablir que ladiff¨¦rence en APVP se traduit en une perte salariale pr¨¦vue d¡¯environ 1,56million $.
%K life expectancy
%K aboriginal population
%K PYLL
%K socio-economic characteristics
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