Health in Gillam · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Gillam is 68.5 years, 13.0 less than for the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 40% very good or excellent, against 51% in Manitoba. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Gillam is well placed: 1.4 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Gillam grades D for health.
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.9, would give Gillam’s region about 74.1 years; it stops at 68.5. For its deprivation ↓
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 11.4 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 41% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 23% of adults, diabetes for 14%. Conditions and habits ↓
More smokers
Around Gillam, 9.6% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Gillam grades D for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
Very good or excellent health (40%)Better than 3% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (22%)Better than 2% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (68.5)Better than 0% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (1.4 km)Better than 90% of Canadian towns
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
For its deprivation
5.6 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Gillam’s region comes out below the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Gillam’s region’s: 68.5 years where the line expects 74.1 at 4.9. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 77.2 years.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Manitoba: 41% to 52%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
41%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
44%
Mental health fair or poor
24%
Most days quite a bit stressful
31%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
87%
Manitoba
On mental health the region is behind Manitoba, 44% very good or excellent to 52%; 31% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (14%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
14%
Obese (self-reported)
64%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
9.6%
Heavy drinking
22%
Flu shot in the past year
34%
Manitoba
At 64%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 36%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Gillam: 1.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Gillam’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
1.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
64 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
531 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Gillam that is nearer than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. The clinic list is thin in Manitoba: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Manitoba
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
68.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
16.5
more years expected at 65
5th
longest of 5 regions in Manitoba
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Southern Health Region80.7
Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region80.0
Prairie Mountain Health Region78.8
Interlake-Eastern Health Region78.5
Northern Health Region68.5
Last of the 5 regions in Manitoba: the highest figure is 80.7, 12.2 years above the lowest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency1.0
Ethno-cultural composition2.4
Situational vulnerability5.0
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Gillam’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Gillam itself is the trip to care.
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
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Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
Questions about health in Gillam
How healthy is Gillam?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 22% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Gillam?
For the health region that includes Gillam, women can expect 70.5 years and men 66.9 (2022/2024).
How is Gillam’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Gillam’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Gillam from a hospital?
Residents of Gillam have a pharmacy 531 km away on average, in a straight line.
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