The Manitoba RHA indicators atlas : Population-based comparisons of health and health care use

We acknowledge the financial support of the Department of Health of the Province of Manitoba. [...] In North Eastman, the district of Springfield has one of the lowest PMRs in the province at 2.7, in contrast to the district of Northern Remote having the highest in the province at 8.5 deaths per thousand. [...] The overall health status of Manitobans improved from the first half of the 1990s to the second half. [...] However, the overall health status of the North is much worse than the rest of the province, with a PMR of 4.7 deaths per thousand in 1996-2000 compared with 3.2 for the Rural South, 3.3 for Winnipeg, and 3.3 for Manitoba. [...] This report compared the first half of the 1990s to the last half of the 1990s.