Health in Baie Verte · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Chronic conditions run high around Baie Verte: 22% on average, against 17% for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 54%, ahead of the 52% for Newfoundland and Labrador. For Baie Verte itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.9 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Baie Verte is C.
Newfoundland and Labrador: 52% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Central Zone
Chronic conditions
22%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Born around Baie Verte, a child can expect 2.5 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 18.9 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Baie Verte than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.1 out of 5, Baie Verte sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Baie Verte grades C 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 (54%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (22%)Better than 3% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 29% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.0)Better than 25% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (1.9 km)Better than 86% 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Newfoundland and Labrador
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
79.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.9
more years expected at 65
2nd
longest of 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Eastern Urban Zone80.2
Central Zone79.0
Eastern Rural Zone78.6
Western Zone78.5
Labrador-Grenfell Zone77.1
This region is 2nd longest-lived of 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador, on a scale from 77.1 to 80.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.3
Economic dependency4.1
Ethno-cultural composition1.3
Situational vulnerability4.1
This is the one part of the block measured for Baie Verte 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (33%) and diabetes (13%)
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
33%
Arthritis
38%
Diabetes
13%
Obese (self-reported)
46%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
22%
Flu shot in the past year
40%
Newfoundland and Labrador
At 46%, self-reported obesity is above Newfoundland and Labrador’s 42%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
For its deprivation
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.2 years
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Baie Verte’s region shows above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Baie Verte’s region beats it: 79.0 years against the 77.8 the trend gives a score of 3.9. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, a median of 78.3.
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 1.9 km from the average home in Baie Verte
Straight-line distances from each part of Baie Verte, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
1.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
42 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.8 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 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
Residents of Baie Verte are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador is 8.5 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Newfoundland and Labrador: 51% and 50%
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
51%
Health fair or poor
20%
Mental health very good or excellent
59%
Mental health fair or poor
12%
Most days quite a bit stressful
11%
Strong sense of belonging
80%
Satisfied with life
90%
Newfoundland and Labrador
Mental health beats Newfoundland and Labrador as well: 59% very good or excellent to 54%, with 11% 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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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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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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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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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Baie Verte shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
Questions about health in Baie Verte
What is the life expectancy in Baie Verte?
Women in Baie Verte’s region live to 80.5 on average and men to 77.4, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Baie Verte’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Baie Verte has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Baie Verte?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 22% of adults.
How far is Baie Verte from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Baie Verte live: 42 km to a clinic, 1.8 km to a pharmacy.
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