Health in Causapscal · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Around Causapscal, 60% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
A baby born in the region can expect 81.7 years, 83.1 for a girl and 80.3 for a boy (2022/2024). For Causapscal itself the measure is access, and it lags: 18 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Causapscal a grade of B+.
For 0% of homes in Causapscal the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 18 km. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Causapscal’s neighbourhoods average 4.6 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Causapscal 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 (60%)Better than 91% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 64% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (18 km)Better than 29% 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.
Getting care
From Causapscal, a hospital is 18 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Causapscal, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
18 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.9 km
residents’ average distance
0.7 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 Causapscal that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Life expectancy across the 18 health regions in Quebec
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
81.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
10th
longest of 18 regions in Quebec
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Région de Laval84.1
Région de Montréal83.4
Région de la Capitale-Nationale82.9
Région de l'Estrie82.9
Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches82.8
Région de la Montérégie82.5
Région des Laurentides82.2
Région de Lanaudière82.0
Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean81.8
Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent81.7
Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec81.6
Région de l'Outaouais80.7
Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine79.9
Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue79.5
Région de la Côte-Nord79.4
Région du Nord-du-Québec78.1
Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James76.8
Région du Nunavik65.2
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 10th place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.5
Economic dependency4.6
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.6
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Causapscal’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.5 years of life
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Causapscal’s region shows above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Causapscal’s region, at 3.2, outlives the trend’s 80.2 years with 81.7. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (8 of 10), with a median of 80.9. On income alone, around $63,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (0.14).
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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (9.4%)
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
24%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
30%
Mood disorder
6.5%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
30%
Quebec
Self-reported obesity, 30%, sits within a few points of Quebec (29%).
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.
Health survey
58% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (56%)
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
58%
Health fair or poor
11%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
4.1%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
68%
Satisfied with life
90%
Quebec
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 72% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Causapscal
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Around Causapscal the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Amqui live nearer a hospital, at 1.6 km against 18 km in Causapscal.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Causapscal’s own.
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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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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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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.
Questions about health in Causapscal
How healthy is Causapscal?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Causapscal’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Causapscal: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Causapscal from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Causapscal live: 1.3 km to a clinic, 1.9 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Causapscal?
For the health region that includes Causapscal, women can expect 83.1 years and men 80.3 (2022/2024).
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