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–Not graded
Health in Waswanipi · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Expect 76.8 years of life in the region around Waswanipi, 4.7 under the typical Canadian town
The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Waswanipi live 102 km from a hospital on average, and 100% of them more than 30 km. There will be no Health grade for Waswanipi, because the national health survey doesn’t sample Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James; life expectancy alone is too little to grade on, so no overall grade follows.
Distance is Waswanipi’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 102 km. Getting care ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Waswanipi, a pharmacy is 101 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Waswanipi sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Deprivation alone, a score of 5.0, would put Waswanipi’s region near 73.6 years; it reaches 76.8. For its deprivation ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Health Grade
Waswanipi can’t be graded for health
What the grade will weigh: the region’s survey and life expectancy, and the town’s own distance to a hospital, each against Canadian towns.
76.8
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
102 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
3.2 more years of life than regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Waswanipi’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)
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 Waswanipi’s region does better with 76.8. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 6 of 10; their median is 77.2 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $118,000, 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
Getting to hospital from Waswanipi: 102 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Waswanipi’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
102 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.8 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
101 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
Waswanipi is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
76.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.3
more years expected at 65
17th
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 17th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency2.0
Ethno-cultural composition3.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Waswanipi’s own areas.
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. 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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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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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.
Questions about health in Waswanipi
What is the life expectancy in Waswanipi?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Waswanipi’s health region only: 79.1 years for women and 73.1 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Waswanipi from a hospital?
A clinic is 0.8 km from the average resident of Waswanipi and a pharmacy 101 km, as the crow flies.
Does Waswanipi have a Health grade?
It can’t have one, because the health survey has no figures for Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James; that also rules out an overall grade for Waswanipi.
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