Figure 4 – Vancouver Area Neighborhood Deprivation Index. Source: Canadian Census, 2001
When these burn instances are overlaid with the results of the VANDIX, a spatial pattern of where these burn injuries occur becomes clear see above. Areas with low SES show a larger instance of burn injury.
Figure 5 - Number of burn injury per quintile. The most deprived quintile, quintile 5, has the highest number of burn cases
The histogram shows the number of burn injuries per quintile. The most deprived quintiles, 4 and 5, have the most instances of burn injury. The least deprived quintiles, 1 - 3, have a lower amount of burn injuries. Although these results are not a linear representation, (See Figure 6) they do show that there is a greater instance of burn injury in the higher deprived areas.
Figure 6 - Burn injury trend per quintile. Instances of burn injury are much higher in quintiles 4 and 5
Similarly, the percentages of burn injury per quintile are representative of previous research, demonstrating a higher instance of burn injury in the higher deprived areas. Fifty-three percent of burn injuries occurred in quintiles 4 and 5. (See Pie Chart Below)
Figure 7 - Pie graph showing the percent of burn cases per quintile. The lowest two quintiles have been combined to show their total percent of deprivation across Metropolitan Vancouver
Of interest, the number of males and females who experienced burns were determined and it was found that males showed a much higher number of burn injuries per quintile.
Figure 8 - Histogram showing the number of male and female burn cases across Metropolitan Vancouver and their respective quintile. Note the high instance of male burn injuries across all quintile -
In each quintile, there is a noticeable trend which shows that males have a higher instance of burns than females. Figure 8 shows a visualization of the number of burn cases occurring in the lowest two quintiles.