Lower Income Canadians More Likely To End Up In Hospital, Compared To Those Who Are Better Off

According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), those at the lower end of the socio-economic ladder have a significantly higher change of being hospitalized for various illnesses, such as child asthma, diabetes and mental illness, compared to middle-class Canadians. Poorer Canadians are 2.4 times more likely to end up in hospital because of diabetes, compared to other Canadians, a CIHI study reveals.

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Filed under: Diabetes on November 25th, 2008