Health in Maliotenam · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 61% of adults around Maliotenam; the typical Canadian town: 52%
A baby born in the region can expect 79.4 years, 82.1 for a girl and 77.0 for a boy (2022/2024). For Maliotenam itself the measure is access, and it lags: 13 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. As a First Nations reserve, Maliotenam can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Maliotenam itself. Health gives Maliotenam a grade of B.
Born around Maliotenam, a child can expect 2.1 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.4 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Maliotenam than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Maliotenam the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
High blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (9.1%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Maliotenam 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 (61%)Better than 93% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 80% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.4)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (13 km)Better than 45% 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
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
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.
79.4
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.4
more years expected at 65
15th
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
Among the 18 regions in Quebec, from 65.2 to 84.1 years, this one is 15th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency3.0
Ethno-cultural composition3.5
Situational vulnerability5.0
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Maliotenam’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.
Conditions and habits
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.1% 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
22%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
9.1%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
7.5%
Anxiety disorder
10%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
25%
Flu shot in the past year
29%
Quebec
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 37% of adults against 29% for Quebec. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% to 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Maliotenam: 13 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Maliotenam, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
13 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
13 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
13 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
Residents of Maliotenam travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.2 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Maliotenam’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
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, Maliotenam’s region would be expected to reach 78.2 years; it reaches 79.4. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 8 of 10; their 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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 59% and 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
59%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
70%
Mental health fair or poor
6.6%
Most days quite a bit stressful
16%
Strong sense of belonging
73%
Satisfied with life
91%
Quebec
Mental health beats Quebec as well: 70% very good or excellent to 64%, with 16% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Maliotenam
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Maliotenam and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Uashat 27 is the closest to care, 2.1 km to Maliotenam’s 13 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Maliotenam shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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 Maliotenam
How healthy is Maliotenam?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How is Maliotenam’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Maliotenam: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. Being a First Nations reserve, it has no overall grade or ranking, and its regional survey figures come from people living off reserve.
What is the life expectancy in Maliotenam?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.1 for women, 77.0 for men around Maliotenam (2022/2024).
How far is Maliotenam from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Maliotenam live: 13 km to a clinic, 13 km to a pharmacy.
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