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.
HIGHEST
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LOWEST
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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 |
The full province-by-province breakdown:
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 |
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