%0 Journal Article
%T Canadian mortality in perspective: a comparison with the United States and other developed countries
%A Bourbeau
%A Robert
%J Canadian Studies in Population
%D 2002
%I Canadian Population Society
%X English The purposes of this paper is to compare mortality patterns in Canada to theUnited States and to other industrialised countries to give support to the existence of a "NorthAmerican Mortality Pattern" (NAMP), and to try to explain this pattern in the context of the specificfeatures of Canadian society. Using data from the WHO mortality database for total and cause-specificmortality, we applied a decomposition method to explain the changes in mortality rate ratios duringthe 1950-1995 period. Our findings show that Canada has experienced a general increase of itsmortality rate ratios compared to other developed countries. There is no evidence that the NAMP fitsfor Canada. In fact, Canadian mortality below age 65 is quite comparable to mortality in otherdeveloped countries. However there is a contrasting low mortality level for the oldest-old(80+). French Cet article a pour but de comparer le profil de la mortalit¨¦ canadienne ¨¤ celui des ¨¦tats-Unis et de plusieurs pays d¨¦velopp¨¦s afin de v¨¦rifier l'existence d'un " profil nord am¨¦ricain de la mortalit¨¦ ", et de tenter de l'expliquer dans le contexte particulier de la soci¨¦t¨¦ canadienne. Nous avons utilis¨¦ les donn¨¦es de la banque de l'OMS sur la mortalit¨¦ selon l'age et la cause de d¨¦c¨¨s pour tenter d'interpr¨¦ter, ¨¤ l'aide d'un mod¨¨le de d¨¦composition, les changements relatifs de la mortalit¨¦ canadienne au cours de la p¨¦riode 1950 ¨¤ 1995. Le Canada a connu une d¨¦t¨¦rioration g¨¦n¨¦rale de ses taux de mortalit¨¦ relativement aux autres pays d¨¦velopp¨¦s. Le Canada pr¨¦sente un profil de mortalit¨¦ distinct des ¨¦tats-Unis, sauf pour une caract¨¦ristique commune, la plus faible mortalit¨¦ aux grands ages (80 ans et plus.)
%K mortality by age and cause
%K Canada
%K international comparisons
%U http://www.canpopsoc.ca/CanPopSoc/assets/File/publications/journal/CSPv29n2p313.pdf