Health in Papineau-Cameron · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More smokers around Papineau-Cameron: 18% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. What sets Papineau-Cameron apart within its region is distance, and at 3.6 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Papineau-Cameron grades C for health.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
19%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Born around Papineau-Cameron, a child can expect 1.5 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.3 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 46% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Papineau-Cameron at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Papineau-Cameron’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.7 predicts: 80.0 years against 78.2. 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
Papineau-Cameron 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 (47%)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 25% of Canadian towns
Smokers (18%)Better than 6% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.0)Better than 41% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (3.6 km)Better than 77% 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
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.8 years ahead of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Papineau-Cameron’s, lies over the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.7, Papineau-Cameron’s region would be expected to reach 78.2 years; it reaches 80.0. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Ontario, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
80.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
24th
longest of 34 regions in Ontario
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
York Regional Health Unit86.3
Peel Regional Health Unit85.3
Halton Regional Health Unit84.9
City of Toronto Health Unit84.7
City of Ottawa Health Unit83.7
Waterloo Health Unit82.8
Durham Regional Health Unit82.6
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit82.4
Middlesex-London Health Unit81.9
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit81.8
Huron Perth Health Unit81.7
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit81.5
Grey Bruce Health Unit81.3
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit81.3
City of Hamilton Health Unit81.2
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit81.2
Niagara Regional Area Health Unit81.2
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit81.0
Renfrew County and District Health Unit81.0
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit81.0
Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit80.6
Peterborough County—City Health Unit80.5
Brant County Health Unit80.4
Lambton Health Unit80.0
North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit80.0
Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit79.8
Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit79.6
Sudbury and District Health Unit79.1
Chatham-Kent Health Unit78.6
The District of Algoma Health Unit77.9
Porcupine Health Unit77.3
Timiskaming Health Unit77.0
Thunder Bay District Health Unit76.5
Northwestern Health Unit73.7
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 24th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.7
Economic dependency4.7
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability5.0
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Papineau-Cameron’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 46% to 51%
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
46%
Health fair or poor
20%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
20%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
61%
Satisfied with life
81%
Ontario
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 49% very good or excellent against 51% for Ontario; stress is a daily matter for 25%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 27% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.7%
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
27%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
9.7%
Obese (self-reported)
36%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
18%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
24%
Ontario
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 36% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 24% to 17%.
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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Papineau-Cameron: 3.6 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Papineau-Cameron, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
3.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
3.5 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.0 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
Papineau-Cameron is near the provincial norm, 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario, with the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Papineau-Cameron and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Mattawa is the closest to care, 0.6 km to Papineau-Cameron’s 3.6 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Papineau-Cameron shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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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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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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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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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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Papineau-Cameron
How healthy is Papineau-Cameron?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 19%.
What is the life expectancy in Papineau-Cameron?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Papineau-Cameron’s health region only: 82.6 years for women and 77.6 for men (2022/2024).
How is Papineau-Cameron’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Papineau-Cameron has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Papineau-Cameron from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Papineau-Cameron live: 3.5 km to a clinic, 4.0 km to a pharmacy.
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