Toronto noticed a mean of greater than three deaths per week amongst folks experiencing homelessness final 12 months, totalling 187 deaths in 2022 in response to new metropolis information.
Toronto Public Health’s newly launched information reveals the variety of deaths amongst folks experiencing homelessness went down from 223 in 2021, however remained greater than yearly totals between 2017 and 2020.
The metropolis’s information reveals that drug toxicity is by far the main reason behind dying for folks experiencing homelessness in Toronto, leading to practically half — or 47 per cent — of reported deaths within the inhabitants.
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The subsequent main reason behind dying is the unknown or pending class at 29 per cent, adopted by heart problems at 10 per cent and most cancers at 5 per cent.
Men accounted for 77 per cent of homeless deaths in 2022 and the age group with the best proportion of deaths was folks aged 40 to 59, at 34 per cent.
The metropolis says in a launch that individuals experiencing homelessness face an elevated danger of untimely dying, with the inhabitants’s median age being 55 for males and 42 for girls in 2022, in comparison with 79 for males and 84 for girls within the common inhabitants.
