Alberni Valley/Bamfield
Community Health Service Area
Health Profile (Version 2.0)
4262 Alberni Valley/Bamfield
Community Health Service Areas (CHSAs) in British Columbia (B.C.) are administrative bounds nested within Local Health Areas (LHAs) as defined by the B.C. Ministry of Health. This CHSA health profile contains information about the community’s demographics, socio-economic and health/disease status as represented through various community health indicators. Unless otherwise stated, data presented in this profile are specific to Alberni Valley/Bamfield CHSA.
The purpose of CHSA health profiles is to help B.C.'s healthcare partners, public health professionals and community organizations better understand the health needs of a specific community and to provide evidence for service provisioning and prevention strategies. In general, CHSA-level values of health indicators should be interpreted with the population size of the CHSA in mind as smaller populations can have wide variations in data. For example, some rates presented in the profiles or the database are derived based on a small number of people with potentially high risk of re-identification. To protect the privacy and confidentiality of the individuals, these values are not releasable publicly as per the BCCDC policy and are indicated as such.
Alberni Valley/Bamfield (CHSA 4262) is 3,490 km² in size and is located on the west coast of central Vancouver Island, west of Highway 19. It is comprised of the community of Bamfield and the following First Nations communities: Uchucklesaht and Huu-ay-aht. Geographic features include Great Central Lake, Sproat Lake, Nahmint Lake, Henderson Lake, and Alberni Inlet. For further information, please refer to BC Data Catalogue.
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Please note that CHSA-level data presented in this profile refer to CHSA boundary version 2018. CHSA boundaries may be subject to change because they use Census building blocks.