Health

  1. The number of active physicians (family practitioners and specialists) per 100,000 in Palliser Health Region was 130 in 2005, 32% lower than the national rate. Palliser’s rate is up 12% from 2000, which compares with a national increase of 1.6%. The number of general family physicians has increased by 29.4% over the same period.    

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    Having a family physician in Medicine Hat was important to 95% of respondents in the Medicine Hat Quality of Life Study from April 2007.

  2. The Alberta provincial average for low birth weight per 100 live births was 6.9% in 2005-2006. For the same period the rate in the Palliser Health Region was 6.1%, up from 4.5% the previous year.      

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  3. In 2005 life expectancy in Palliser Health Region for women was 81.46 years and for men 75.70, which in both cases is slightly less than the provincial average of 82.69 year for women and 77.55 for men.      

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    Life Expectancy at Birth by Sex and Health Region
      Female Male
      1986 1996 2005 1986 1996 2005
    Alberta 80.39 81.38 82.69 74.12 75.92 77.55
    Palliser Health Region 82.44 81.59 81.46 75.63 75.28 75.70

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  4. During the period 2003 – 2006, 51% of all human West Nile cases reported in Alberta were located in the Palliser Health Region.    

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Pregnancy rate for women aged 15 – 49 in the Palliser region had increased from 65 to 69.4 per 1,000 from 2002 to 2005. The Alberta rate for the same time period went form 64 to 66.7 per 1,000.

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