Health in Shawville · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Shawville’s health region counts 17% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Quebec, 55% against 57%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Shawville is well placed: 0.6 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Shawville grades B+ for health.
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Shawville’s neighbourhoods average 4.6 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (8.6%) 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
Shawville 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 (0.6 km)Better than 98% 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
In the region, high blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (8.6%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 29% for Quebec.
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
Longest and shortest lives among the 18 regions in Quebec
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
This region is 12th longest-lived of 18 in Quebec, on a scale from 65.2 to 84.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.6
Economic dependency4.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.3
Situational vulnerability4.6
The index is context and never graded: it describes Shawville’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Shawville’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)
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.1 would be expected to reach 80.5 years, and Shawville’s region is close, at 80.7. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 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
The nearest hospital is 0.6 km from the average home in Shawville
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Shawville’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
2.0 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 Shawville are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Horton’s life expectancy is 81.0, this region’s 80.7. Residents of Bristol live further from a hospital, at 9.1 km against 0.6 km in Shawville.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Shawville itself is the trip to care.
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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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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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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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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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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 Shawville
How healthy is Shawville?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Shawville?
For the health region that includes Shawville, women can expect 82.2 years and men 79.1 (2022/2024).
How far is Shawville from a hospital?
A clinic is 0.6 km from the average resident of Shawville and a pharmacy 0.6 km, as the crow flies.
How is Shawville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Shawville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0