Health in Chapais · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
65% of adults around Chapais call their health very good or excellent, above the typical Canadian town’s 52%
People in the region live to 78.1 on average: 78.5 for women and 77.6 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 38 km from the average resident of Chapais, and 100% live more than 30 km away. The Health grade for Chapais is C.
Chapais’ region sits 3.4 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 18.3 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Chapais’ own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 38 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Chapais than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Chapais, a pharmacy is 38 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Chapais 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 (65%)Better than almost every Canadian town
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 29% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.1)Better than 10% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (38 km)Better than 5% 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 18 health regions in Quebec
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
78.1
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.3
more years expected at 65
16th
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
Ranked 16th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency3.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.3
Situational vulnerability4.8
The index is context and never graded: it describes Chapais’ own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Chapais: 38 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Chapais’ own, not the region’s.
Hospital
38 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
16 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
38 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Chapais is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 12%
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
22%
Diabetes
12%
Obese (self-reported)
41%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
9.4%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
34%
Flu shot in the past year
33%
Quebec
Self-reported obesity, 41%, tops Quebec (29%). More adults drink heavily, 34% to the province’s 22%.
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
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Chapais’ region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 3.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 78.0 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Chapais belongs to reaches 78.1. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (8 of 10, median 79.2 years). Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $87,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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
65% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Quebec (56%)
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
65%
Health fair or poor
12%
Mental health very good or excellent
72%
Mental health fair or poor
5.1%
Most days quite a bit stressful
13%
Strong sense of belonging
72%
Satisfied with life
93%
Quebec
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 72% very good or excellent to 64%, with 13% 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. 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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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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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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Chapais shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
Questions about health in Chapais
How healthy is Chapais?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Chapais from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Chapais live: 16 km to a clinic, 38 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Chapais?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 78.5 for women, 77.6 for men around Chapais (2022/2024).
How is Chapais’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Chapais has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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