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Drug overdoses, COVID-19 drive Saskatchewan Canada life expectancy to lowest level in 22 years
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The untimely deaths of young people from overdoses in Saskatchewan is part of what’s driving down the province’s life expectancy to its lowest level in 22 years.
Generally, the average person can expect to live a longer life than they could 100 years ago because of advances in medicine, nutrition, water quality and housing.
was dragging down the national average, given that other provinces — including Saskatchewan — had seen an increase in life expectancy due to better treatment for cancer and circulatory disease.
McGrail, the UBC professor, studied excess mortality — the number of deaths above and beyond what would have been expected under normal circumstances — between March 2020 and October 2021.
McGrail worries that people will assume the impact of the virus is over, and may fail to recognize issues that trace back to the pandemic, such as chronic illnesses, surgical delays or mental distress.
“Everybody will know the uncle who smoked two packs a day and lived to a hardy 95, and the aunt who exercised and ate healthy and succumbed to a condition at a very young age,” Zajacova said.
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