Health in Chisasibi · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Chisasibi’s health region live to 76.8 on average, 4.7 years short of the typical Canadian town
For Chisasibi itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.1 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. There will be no Health grade for Chisasibi, because the national health survey doesn’t sample Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James; life expectancy alone is too little to grade on, so no overall grade follows.
Picking up a prescription in Chisasibi takes a trip of 454 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Chisasibi’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 5.0, would put Chisasibi’s region near 73.6 years; it reaches 76.8. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
No Health grade is possible for Chisasibi
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
76.8
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
2.1 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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 would predict shorter lives: 3.2 years more here
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Chisasibi’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 line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 5.0 at 73.6 years of life; Chisasibi’s region does better, at 76.8. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 6 of them above it, a median of 77.2. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $118,000, more than in most regions, yet lives here are shorter than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Chisasibi: 2.1 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Chisasibi’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
2.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
85 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
454 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
Chisasibi is closer in than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
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Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Chisasibi
What is the life expectancy in Chisasibi?
For the health region that includes Chisasibi, women can expect 79.1 years and men 73.1 (2022/2024).
Does Chisasibi have a Health grade?
It can’t have one, because the health survey has no figures for Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James; that also rules out an overall grade for Chisasibi.
How far is Chisasibi from a hospital?
For everyday care, Chisasibi’s residents are 454 km from a pharmacy and 85 km from a clinic on average.
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