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Level of Statistical Significance / Seuil de signification statistiqueCompared to the national average of 0.8 / En comparaison de la moyenne nationale de 0.8

Significantly High / Valeur significativement élevéeTenth Decile, Not Significant / Dixième décile, non significatifNot Significantly Different / Valeur non significativement différenteSignificantly Low / Valeur significativement faibleNo Cases / Aucun casData Suppressed / Données supprimées

Sparsely Populated / Peu peuplée

Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James

Source: Health Indicators Volume 2001, No. 3. Produced by Geography Division for the Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada, 2001 Indicateurs de la santé, Volume 2001, No. 3. Préparé par la Division de la géographie pour la Division de la statistique de la santé, Statistique Canada, 2001.

Deaths due to Medically Treatable Diseases:Bacterial Infections

Age-Standardized Rate for Persons Aged 5 to 64By Health Region

1996Décès dus à des maladies traitables

médicalement : Infections bactériennesTaux normalisé selon l'âge pour les personnes

âgées de 5 à 64 ansPar région socio-sanitaire

1996

Health Indicators, May 2002Statistics Canada, catalogue no. 82-221-X IE Volume 2002, No. 1

About the maps

What is an ecumene?

Ecumene is a term used by geographers to mean inhabited land. Itgenerally refers to land where people have made their permanent home,and to all work areas that are considered occupied and used for agriculturalor any other economic purposes. Thus, there can be various types ofecumenes, each having their own unique characteristics (such aspopulation ecumene, agricultural ecumene, industrial ecumene, etc.). Inthis case, the 1996 Census national population ecumene was used. It isdefined as all enumeration areas with a minimum population density of 0.4persons per square kilometre. To ensure visibility for small scale thematicmapping, the detailed ecumene limits are manually generalized and smallnon-contiguous ecumene pockets are aggregated.

The ecumene was used to present health-related data in order to emphasizethose areas in Canada where most people live. Within each health regionboundary on the map, there may be two colours present: grey and oneother colour. The other colour signifies both the ecumene itself and thelevel of statistical significance of the data (see below for further details).However, the grey portion (if any), while representing the non-ecumenearea, is still assumed to have the same data/rates and level of statisticalsignificance as the ecumene area.

Although the national ecumene was designed to present census divisionlevel data, it has been used here to map health region data. To show datafor Région des Terres-Cries de la Baie-James in Quebec, a star symbol isused because the ecumene does not differentiate the communitiescomprising this health region from the surrounding health regions ofRégion du Nord-du-Québec and Région du Nunavik.

Health regions

The health regions are defined by provincial governments as the areas ofresponsibility for regional health boards (i.e., legislated) or as regions ofinterest to health care authorities.

To effectively compare areas with similar socio-economic characteristics,health regions have been aggregated into �peer groups� using a statisticalmethod. The final result is a set of ten peer groups ranging in size fromfive to 34 health regions with membership crossing provincial boundaries.

Health regions are identified by a four-digit code, which can be seen usingthe Zoom function of Adobe Acrobat�. Peer groups are classified byletters A through J which have been added to the health region code in thismap series. For more information about health regions and peer groups,refer to �About Health Indicators� in this product.

Level of Statistical Significance

The level of statistical significance was calculated at a 95% level ofconfidence to determine whether the data were significantly higher than,lower than or not significantly different from the Canadian average. Insome health regions, the data values are numerically higher or lower thanthe national average, but have high variability so are not statisticallydifferent from the national average. This category is First (or Tenth)Decile, Not Significant. This means that the indicator values themselves inthese health regions were low enough (or high enough, in the case of 10th

decile) to be considered among the worst (or best, for 10th decile)10% ofall health regions, but the high variability of the value made it notstatistically significant from the Canada average.

For more information about data sources and limitations see the Data quality,concepts and methodology section as well as the table footnotes.