Health in Déléage · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Smoking runs high around Déléage: 17% of adults, the typical Canadian town 12%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 55%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. For Déléage itself the measure is access: 3.4 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Déléage a grade of B.
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Déléage sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 18% report high blood pressure and 8.6% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Déléage 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 (55%)Better than 69% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 84% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 21% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.7)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (3.4 km)Better than 79% 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.
Conditions and habits
18% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.6% diabetes
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
18%
Arthritis
17%
Diabetes
8.6%
Obese (self-reported)
34%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
30%
Quebec
At 34%, self-reported obesity is above Quebec’s 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.
The wider area
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
80.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.6
more years expected at 65
12th
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
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 12th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.5
Economic dependency4.5
Ethno-cultural composition1.2
Situational vulnerability5.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Déléage’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Déléage’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.1, the expected figure is 80.5 years, and Déléage’s region matches it closely with 80.7. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 80.7 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Déléage: 3.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Déléage’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
6.1 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
From Déléage that is nearer than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Déléage’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Messines live further from a hospital, at 13 km against 3.4 km in Déléage.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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 Déléage’s own.
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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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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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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
Questions about health in Déléage
How healthy is Déléage?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Déléage?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Déléage’s health region only: 82.2 years for women and 79.1 for men (2022/2024).
How is Déléage’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Déléage’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Déléage from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Déléage is 5.6 km from a clinic and 6.1 km from a pharmacy.
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