Health in Salluit · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Salluit is 65.2 years, 16.3 less than for the typical Canadian town
Closer to home, a hospital is 255 km from the average resident of Salluit, and 100% live more than 30 km away. There will be no Health grade for Salluit, because the national health survey doesn’t sample Région du Nunavik; life expectancy alone is too little to grade on, so no overall grade follows.
Salluit’s region falls short of what its deprivation score of 5.0 predicts: 65.2 years against 73.6. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Salluit’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 255 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Salluit, a pharmacy is 845 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Salluit at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Salluit can’t be graded for health
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
65.2
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
255 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
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 8.4 years behind the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Salluit’s region shows under the trend.
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 5.0, the expected figure is 73.6 years, and Salluit’s region falls below with 65.2. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, all live longer; the middle of the group is 77.2 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $95,000, 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
From Salluit, a hospital is 255 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Salluit, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
255 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
958 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
845 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
Salluit is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
65.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
16.2
more years expected at 65
18th
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
This is the shortest-lived of the 18 regions in Quebec, 18.9 years behind the first at 84.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency3.0
Ethno-cultural composition5.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Salluit’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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.
Questions about health in Salluit
What is the life expectancy in Salluit?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Salluit’s health region only: 70.3 years for women and 60.7 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Salluit from a hospital?
A clinic is 958 km from the average resident of Salluit and a pharmacy 845 km, as the crow flies.
Does Salluit have a Health grade?
No: Région du Nunavik isn’t covered by the health survey, so Salluit can’t be graded for health, and without Health there is no overall grade.
Photo: Raphaël Joanisse-Clément · CC BY-SA 3.0