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February 2003, Vol 93, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 186-187
© 2003 American Public Health Association

LETTER

MANUEL AND MAO

Douglas G. Manuel, MD, MSc, FRCPC and Yang Mao, PhD

Douglas G. Manuel is with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. Yang Mao is with the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Douglas G. Manuel, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences G-119, 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada (e-mail: doug.manuel@ices.on.ca).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We wholeheartedly agree with Clark and Shinoda-Tagawa that injuries are an important source of "avoidable mortality." Injuries, along with tobacco-related causes of death, are arguably the most important source of deaths that could be avoided by the public health care system. Injury and lung cancer death rates, like death rates for most other avoidable causes, have been decreasing in both Canada and the United States, but the rates are lower in Canada (Figure 1Go). For injuries, not only is the Canadian death rate much lower than that of the United States, but—again like death rates due to most other . . . [Full Text]






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