Sask. people blame health gap on cold winters
Aug 19, 2015 | 7:08 AM
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If the rest of the country was as healthy as people in B.C., Canada would save billions of dollars on its health care system.
That’s from a new study published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health which took a look at the economic burden of smoking, obesity, and lack of physical activity. B.C.ranked the lowest among all provinces in 2012 and the study found that if every province were as healthy, the cost of health care could have been reduced by $5.3 billion, or 10 per cent.
Savings in Saskatchewan would be about $350 million, $620 million for Alberta, $1.74 billion in Ontario, and $1.5 billion for Quebec.
So why are people in B.C. so much healthier than those in Saskatchewan?
