Health in Louise · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Around Louise, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 80.7 years on average (2022/2024): 82.9 for women, 78.7 for men. Measured from where Louise’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 7.5 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Louise a grade of B−.
Picking up a prescription in Louise takes a trip of 28 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 3.7 on the deprivation index typically live 78.3 years; Louise’s region, at 80.7, does better. For its deprivation ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Health Grade
Louise grades B− 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 (51%)Better than 48% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 31% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.7)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (7.5 km)Better than 66% 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
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 2.4 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Louise’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Louise’s region sits above it: 80.7 years where a score of 3.7 predicts 78.3. No region among the 10 scored most like it does better; they centre on 78.2 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 7.5 km from the average home in Louise
Straight-line distances from each part of Louise, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
7.5 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
32 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
28 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
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Louise is on the far side. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.3%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
8.3%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
20%
Flu shot in the past year
34%
Manitoba
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Manitoba (36%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Manitoba
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Manitoba, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
80.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.3
more years expected at 65
1st
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
No region of the 5 in Manitoba lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 68.5, a gap of 12.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency3.5
Ethno-cultural composition1.2
Situational vulnerability3.2
This is the one part of the block measured for Louise itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba (52%)
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
52%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
56%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
67%
Satisfied with life
87%
Manitoba
Mental health beats Manitoba as well: 56% very good or excellent to 52%, with 20% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Louise’s own.
Questions about health in Louise
How is Louise’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Louise’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Louise?
There is no figure for Louise alone; its health region’s is 82.9 for women and 78.7 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Louise from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 28 km from the average resident of Louise, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Louise?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 19%.
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