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| Seven more years: The impact of smoking, alcohol, diet, physical activity and stress on health and life expectancy in Ontario |
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This report examines the burden of five behavioural health risks – smoking, unhealthy alcohol consumption, poor diet, physical inactivity and high stress – and their impact on life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy in Ontario.
The findings of this joint study released by PHO and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) expand our understanding of healthy living by quantifying the impact of the five health risks on Ontarians’ overall health.
Ontario’s population can gain seven more years in life expectancy and have a better quality of life by having healthier lives. To become a healthier province, Ontario needs to build on its success in achieving a reduction in smoking and focus similar attention on reducing other risk factors.
To help you understand how certain behaviours like smoking, alcohol, food, exercise and stress level can affect life expectancy, please visit the Life Expectancy Calculator developed by the Population Health Improvement Research Network (PHIRN). |
