Term: Types of Potentially Avoidable Deaths

Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2020-04-28

Definition:

This indicator sub-divides potentially avoidable deaths into three categories:

• Deaths due to diseases that are preventable (e.g., vaccine-preventable diseases and skin cancer)
  
• Deaths due to diseases that are treatable (e.g., hypertension and asthma)
  
• Deaths due to diseases considered 50% preventable and 50% treatable (e.g., ischemic heart disease)

Related terms 

• Potentially Avoidable Death Rates

References 

• Fransoo R, Mahar A, The Need to Know Team, Anderson A, Prior H, Koseva I, McCulloch S, Jarmasz J, Burchill S. The 2019 RHA Indicators Atlas. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2019. [Report] [Summary] [Updates and Errata] [Additional Materials] (View)