SELF‐RATED HEALTH AS
EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD
AGES 18+ YEARS
(2009‐2013)
DURHAM REGION
Lake Simcoe
by Health Neighbourhood
Percentage who Rate
their Health as Excellent or Very Good
BROCK
Number of
Neighbourhoods
36.7% to 54.3%
(10)
54.5% to 58.6%
(10)
59.3% to 61.8%
(10)
62.1% to 64.9%
(10)
65.2% to 69.0%
(10)
Health Neighbourhood
Boundaries
UXBRIDGE
SCUGOG
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La ugo
Sc
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2.5
5
Kilometers
PICKERING
OSHAWA
CLARINGTON
WHITBY
AJAX
L
L
L
L
L
L
Lake Ontario
Durham data - Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS), Durham Region Health Department and Institute for Social Research, York University,
2009-2013. Ontario data - Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS) Provincial Sample Pilot Project, 2011.
H - Neighbourhood value significantly higher than Durham Region, L - Neighbourhood value significantly lower than Durham Region
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Self-Rated Health as Excellent or Very Good, Ages 18+ Years (2009-2013)
Table 1: Health Neighbourhoods Indicator Summary
Higher is Better
Compared to Durham Rate
Pickering
Frenchman's Bay (P1)
West Rouge (P2)
Amberlee (P3)
Dunbarton (P4)
Pickering City Centre (P5)
Brock Ridge Pickering (P6)
Pickering North (P7)
Ajax
Ajax Waterfront (A1)
Downtown Ajax (A2)
Carruthers (A3)
Central Ajax (A4)
Riverside-Hermitage (A5)
Westney Heights (A6)
Applecroft (A7)
Ajax Northwest (A8)
Ajax Northeast (A9)
Whitby
Whitby South (W1)
Downtown Whitby (W2)
Cochrane South (W3)
Manning (W4)
Williamsburg (W5)
Whitby Brock North (W6)
Dryden-Anderson (W7)
Dryden East (W8)
Brooklin East (W9)
Brooklin West (W10)
Oshawa
Lakeview (O1)
Gibb West (O2)
Downtown Oshawa (O3)
Central Park (O4)
Grandview South (O5)
Stevenson North (O6)
Hillsdale (O7)
Beatrice South (O8)
Grandview North (O9)
Beatrice North (O10)
Oshawa Northwest (O11)
Oshawa Northeast (O12)
Clarington
Courtice South (C1)
Courtice North (C2)
Bowmanville South (C3)
Bowmanville Central (C4)
Bowmanville North (C5)
Darlington (C6)
Clarke (C7)
Scugog
Port Perry (S1)
Rural Scugog (S2)
Uxbridge
Urban Uxbridge (U1)
Rural Uxbridge (U2)
Percentage who Rate
their Health as Excellent
or Very Good
95% Confidence
Interval
62%
61%
64%
63%
68%
54%
61%
62%
60%
66%
57%
68%
53%
58%
59%
64%
57%
62%
62%
60%
57%
61%
63%
69%
58%
68%
66%
65%
62%
54%
49%
50%
37%
53%
54%
59%
50%
59%
66%
48%
55%
55%
60%
67%
45%
61%
61%
60%
65%
58%
65%
65%
65%
66%
67%
64%
59% - 65%
54% - 68%
55% - 72%
53% - 72%
60% - 74%
45% - 63%
50% - 71%
53% - 71%
57% - 64%
58% - 73%
48% - 65%
59% - 76%
44% - 62%
49% - 67%
47% - 69%
54% - 73%
47% - 68%
50% - 72%
60% - 65%
52% - 66%
51% - 64%
53% - 69%
57% - 69%
59% - 78%
49% - 66%
60% - 75%
57% - 73%
57% - 72%
54% - 69%
52% - 56%
41% - 56%
42% - 58%
29% - 45%
45% - 60%
47% - 61%
53% - 65%
43% - 58%
52% - 66%
58% - 73%
40% - 57%
47% - 63%
47% - 62%
57% - 63%
60% - 73%
36% - 53%
55% - 68%
52% - 69%
52% - 67%
57% - 72%
52% - 64%
60% - 70%
58% - 72%
58% - 71%
60% - 72%
60% - 73%
51% - 76%
56%
60%
50% - 62%
59% - 61%
37%- 69%
60%
58%-62%
Lower
Similar
Higher
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
ê
ê
ê
ê
l
l
l
ê
l
l
ê
l
l
l
l
ê
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
l
Brock
Brock (B1)
Durham Region
Range
Ontario
l
Similar to Ontario
Source: Durham data - Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS), Durham Region Health Department and Institute for Social Research, York University, 2009-2013.
Ontario data - Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS) Provincial Sample Pilot Project, 2011.
Note: Estimates marked with * should be used with caution because of high sampling variability with a Coefficient of Variation (CV) between 16.5% and 33.3%, Estimates with
a CV greater than 33.3%, a numerator less than 5 or a denominator less than 30 have been suppressed and are marked as Not Releaseable (NR). Lower (down arrow) or
Higher (up arrow) means that the 95% confidence intervals do not overlap with those of Durham Region and are significantly different.
Self-Rated Health as Excellent or Very Good, Ages 18+ Years (2009-2013)
Table 2: List of Health Neighbourhoods ranked from lowest to highest
Order
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
End of
Health Neighbourhoods
Downtown Oshawa (O3)
Courtice North (C2)
Beatrice North (O10)
Lakeview (O1)
Gibb West (O2)
Hillsdale (O7)
Central Park (O4)
Central Ajax (A4)
Grandview South (O5)
Pickering City Centre (P5)
Oshawa Northeast (O12)
Oshawa Northwest (O11)
Brock (B1)
Downtown Ajax (A2)
Ajax Northwest (A8)
Downtown Whitby (W2)
Whitby Brock North (W6)
Riverside-Hermitage (A5)
Clarke (C7)
Westney Heights (A6)
Beatrice South (O8)
Stevenson North (O6)
Whitby South (W1)
Bowmanville North (C5)
Brock Ridge Pickering (P6)
Bowmanville Central (C4)
Frenchman's Bay (P1)
Cochrane South (W3)
Bowmanville South (C3)
Ajax Northeast (A9)
Brooklin West (W10)
Pickering North (P7)
Amberlee (P3)
Manning (W4)
West Rouge (P2)
Applecroft (A7)
Rural Uxbridge (U2)
Rural Scugog (S2)
Darlington (C6)
Brooklin East (W9)
Port Perry (S1)
Dryden East (W8)
Ajax Waterfront (A1)
Grandview North (O9)
Courtice South (C1)
Urban Uxbridge (U1)
Dunbarton (P4)
Dryden-Anderson (W7)
Carruthers (A3)
Williamsburg (W5)
Percentage who Rate their
Health as Excellent or
Very Good
37%
45%
48%
49%
50%
50%
53%
53%
54%
54%
55%
55%
56%
57%
57%
57%
58%
58%
58%
59%
59%
59%
60%
60%
61%
61%
61%
61%
61%
62%
62%
62%
63%
63%
64%
64%
64%
65%
65%
65%
65%
66%
66%
66%
67%
67%
68%
68%
68%
69%
Compared to
Durham Region
(Higher is Better)
LOWER
LOWER
LOWER
LOWER
LOWER
LOWER
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
similar
Quintile
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
Self-Rated Health as Excellent or Very Good, Ages 18+ Years (2009-2013)
Table 3: Percentage who rate their health as excellent or very good by Durham Region
Municipality
Municipality
Percentage who Rate their Health
as Excellent or Very Good
Compared to Durham Region
(Higher is Better)
Pickering
Ajax
Whitby
Oshawa
Clarington
Scugog
Uxbridge
Brock
Durham Region
Ontario
62%
60%
62%
54%
60%
65%
66%
56%
60%
60%
similar
similar
similar
LOWER
similar
similar
similar
similar
Similar to Ontario
End of table
What You Need to Know
• A higher rate of self-rated health is better for health.
• The percentage of adults who rate their health as excellent or very good ranges by Health
Neighbourhood from 37% to 69%.
• Self-rated health status has been found to be a strong predictor of well-being. Self-rated health tends
to be lower in the downtown areas of the urban municipalities. Five Neighbourhoods in Oshawa and
one in Clarington have significantly lower self-rated health than Durham Region. Neighbourhoods
with high self-rated health are scattered throughout the Region.
Indicator Notes
• This indicator measures the percentage of adults aged 18 years or older who rate their health as
excellent or very good.
• Source: Durham data - Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS), Durham Region Health
Department and Institute for Social Research, York University, 2009-2013. Ontario data - Rapid Risk
Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS) Provincial Sample Pilot Project, 2011.
• RRFSS is an ongoing survey of adults in Durham Region that collects data related to health
knowledge, attitudes and behaviours. Five years of data were combined to provide a large enough
sample for analysis at the Neighbourhood level. Respondents were asked to rate their health as
excellent, very good, good, fair or poor. This indicator combined two categories.
• Neighbourhoods were sorted by the percentage of adults with excellent or very good self-rated
health and divided into quintiles (five equal groupings). Approximately 10 Neighbourhoods are in
each quintile.
• Neighbourhoods were compared with Durham Region based on their confidence intervals. Those
with rates that were lower or higher had 95% confidence intervals that did not overlap with those of
Durham Region and were significantly different.
Release Date: January 2015.
For more information, refer to The Guide to Health Neighbourhoods.
If you require this information in an accessible format, contact 1-800-841-2729.

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