Leading Causes of Death and Hospitalization in Canada

Tables 1 and 2 are based on Injury Section analysis of data from Statistics Canada (mortality) and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (hospitalization). The most frequent deaths and hospitalizations from injury and poisoning were subdivided by intent (unintentional injury, self-inflicted injury, or injury due to assault) and highlighted to stand out in the tables. All data were classified using ICD-10. Adverse effects occurring in medical care were excluded from the unintentional injuries.

It should be noted that the hospitalization data represent the numbers of hospitalizations for treatment of disease or injury – not the numbers of diseases and injuries requiring hospitalization or the numbers of injured or ill people admitted to hospital.

• Table 1: Leading causes of death, Canada, 2008, males and females combined, counts (age-specific death rate per 100,000)
• Table 2: Leading causes of hospitalizations, Canada, 2009/10, males and females combined, counts (age-specific hospitalization rate per 100,000)