Health in Romaine 2 · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Residents of Romaine 2 live 201 km from the nearest hospital on average
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 61% very good or excellent, against 57% in Quebec. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 208 km away on average and 0.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Romaine 2 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Romaine 2. The Health grade for Romaine 2 is C+.
Life expectancy in the region around Romaine 2 runs 2.1 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.4 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs high
Around Romaine 2, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Romaine 2 takes a trip of 208 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.9 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 59%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Romaine 2 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 (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 (201 km)Better than 1% 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.
Health survey
59% 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
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 looks better than in the province too: 70% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 16% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The wider area
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.
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
Ranked 15th of 18 in Quebec: the regions span 65.2 to 84.1 years at birth.
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
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
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
Self-reported obesity, 37%, tops Quebec (29%). More adults drink heavily, 25% 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.
Getting care
Everyday care in Romaine 2: the nearest pharmacy 208 km away, 0.0 within 3 km
Straight-line distances from each part of Romaine 2, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
201 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
43 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
208 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
From Romaine 2 that is further than the 5.3 km of the typical town in Quebec, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.2 years ahead of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Romaine 2’s region’s dot is above the line.
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 3.7 at 78.2 years of life; Romaine 2’s region does better, at 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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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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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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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 Romaine 2’s own.
Questions about health in Romaine 2
How far is Romaine 2 from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Romaine 2 is 43 km from a clinic and 208 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Romaine 2?
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.
What is the life expectancy in Romaine 2?
For the health region that includes Romaine 2, women can expect 82.1 years and men 77.0 (2022/2024).
How is Romaine 2’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Romaine 2: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
Photo: Pierre-Olivier Combelles · CC BY-SA 3.0