Table 1

All-cause standardized mortality ratios, ages 0–74, 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

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

Altmayer et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2003 2:7   doi:10.1186/1476-072X-2-7

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