です Canadians healthier than Americans?

太平洋岸北西部, 最低, それらは. That’s according to the February 2009 カスカディアスコアカード:

ブリティッシュコロンビア州の太平洋岸北西部をリード in several critical long-term trends, を含む 人間 健康, energy effiiciency, と スマートな成長, カスカディアスコアカードを報告した, a regional progress report released today by 視線研究所.

…British Columbia residents live an average of 81.6 å¹´é–“, two years longer than residents of the Northwest states and topping all other North American states と地方. 実際には, if BC were an independent nation, それがなければならない second longest lifespan in the world, 日本の後, アイスランドで接続する.

The healthiest jurisdiction in British Columbia is the suburban city of リッチモンド, 紀元前, where lifespans exceed 84 年間.

どのような英国コロンビア州はとても健康的になり? ザ カスカディアレポート goes on to say:

British Columbians’ success in leading long, healthy lives results not from one single cause, 多くの. None of the province’s inhabitants goes without 健康保険 — unlike the 1 で 7 residents of the Northwest states who do so each year.

BCもあります lower rates of violent deaths: fewer homicides and also fewer fatal car crashes, the latter largely due to compact communities that allow residents to drive less.

Even economics may play a role. On average, residents of the province aren’t as wealthy as their American counterparts, 所得と富が、 gaps between the rich and the poor are narrower. 世界中で, an unequal economic structure tends to be associated with poor health.

Other factors, を含む lower rates of severe obesity compared with the Northwest states, may also play a role.