Health: what’s up, doc?
Canada Day Special 2010
Where you live affects your well-being, say experts. In fact, those in Canada’s poorest neighbourhoods are 37 per cent more likely to suffer a heart attack than those in affluent areas.
| Life expectancy in years - Women | |
| B.C.: 84 | Nfld.: 81 |
| Life expectancy in years - Men | |
| Ontario and B.C.: 79 | Nfld.: 76 |
| Do you have a family doctor? | |
| B.C.: 94% | Quebec: 75% |
| Cancer incidences rate per 100,000 population - Women | |
| Nova Scotia: 388 | Nfld.: 313 |
| Cancer incidences rate per 100,000 population - Men | |
| Nova Scotia: 550 | B.C.: 418 |
| Obesity % of household adult population | |
| Newfoundland: 27.4% | B.C.: 13.5% |
| Daily smokers % of population | |
| Newfoundland: 18.5% | B.C.: 12.3% |
| Heart attacks needing hospitalization rate per 100,000 population | |
| Newfoundland: 347 | B.C.: 169 |
| Source: life expectancy (at birth, 2005-07): StatsCan; family doctor (June 2009): Harris/Decima poll; cancer estimates (2008): Public Health Agency of Canada; obesity (aged 18+, 2008), smoking (aged 12+, 2009): StatsCan’s Canadian Community Health Survey; heart attacks (age standardized, 2008): Canadian Institute for Health Information | |
HIGHEST
LOWEST
| Life expectancy, women | |
| B.C. | 84 |
| Alberta | 83 |
| P.E.I. | 83 |
| Quebec | 83 |
| New Brunswick | 83 |
| Ontario | 83 |
| Manitoba | 82 |
| Saskatchewan | 82 |
| Nova Scotia | 82 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 81 |
| Life expectancy, men | |
| B.C. | 79 |
| Ontario | 79 |
| Alberta | 78 |
| P.E.I. | 78 |
| Quebec | 78 |
| Manitoba | 77 |
| New Brunswick | 77 |
| Nova Scotia | 77 |
| Saskatchewan | 77 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 76 |
| Do you have a family doctor? | |
| B.C. | 94% |
| Ontario | 92% |
| Atlantic provinces | 91% |
| Alberta | 87% |
| Manitoba/Saskatchewan | 82% |
| Quebec | 75% |
| Cancer incidences - women (rate per 100,000 population) | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 312.8 |
| B.C. | 322.1 |
| Saskatchewan | 342.1 |
| Ontario | 362 |
| New Brunswick | 366.3 |
| P.E.I. | 369.2 |
| Quebec | 371.5 |
| Alberta | 378.9 |
| Manitoba | 382.6 |
| Nova Scotia | 387.8 |
| Cancer incidences - men (rate per 100,000 population) | |
| B.C. | 418 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 433.9 |
| Ontario | 459.1 |
| Saskatchewan | 465.9 |
| Quebec | 479.5 |
| Manitoba | 483.8 |
| New Brunswick | 499.2 |
| Alberta | 513.2 |
| P.E.I. | 535.9 |
| Nova Scotia | 550 |
| Obesity (% of household population) | |
| B.C. | 13.5 |
| Quebec | 15.5 |
| Ontario | 17.1 |
| Alberta | 18.3 |
| Manitoba | 20.3 |
| New Brunswick | 23.5 |
| P.E.I. | 23.9 |
| Nova Scotia | 24.8 |
| Saskatchewan | 25.6 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 27.4 |
| Daily smokers (% of total population) | |
| B.C. | 12.3% |
| Manitoba | 14.1% |
| Ontario | 14.4% |
| P.E.I. | 15.3% |
| Saskatchewan | 17.2% |
| Quebec | 17.4% |
| New Brunskwick | 17.9% |
| Alberta | 17.9% |
| Nova Scotia | 18.3% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 18.5% |
| Heart attacks needing hospitalization (rate per 100,000 population) | |
| B.C. | 169 |
| Alberta | 205 |
| Ontario | 216 |
| Quebec | 221 |
| Saskatchewan | 228 |
| Manitoba | 255 |
| Nova Scotia | 264 |
| New Brunswick | 269 |
| P.E.I. | 294 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 347 |
The full province-by-province breakdown:
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