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.
FIGURE 1—Rates of avoidable deaths from injuries and lung cancer in Canada and the United States, 19801996.
Note. ASDR = age-standardized death rate (direct method; deaths per 100 000 population younger than 65 years for injuries, aged 35 to 65 years for lung cancer).
Source. Data are from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Statistics Canada.1,2