Table 2.
Descriptive characteristics of medical travel, by travel type, between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2018.
| Community size (pop.) * | Medevac N= (%) |
Sched-Evac N= (%) |
Total N= (%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,968 (9.9) | 45,359 (90.1) | 50,327 (100.0) | |||
| Community | |||||
| Arctic Bay | 868 | 313 (8.0) | 3,597 (92.0) | 3,910 (100.0) | <0.001 |
| Kinngait | 1,441 | 622 (9.3) | 6,057 (90.7) | 6,679 (100.0) | |
| Clyde River | 1,053 | 616 (11.2) | 4,888 (88.8) | 5,504 (100.0) | |
| Grise Fiord/Resolute | 342 (combined) | 144 (7.4) | 1,799 (92.6) | 1,943 (100.0) | |
| Sanirajak | 848 | 396 (10.6) | 3,341 (89.4) | 3,737 (100.0) | |
| Igloolik | 1,682 | 890 (11.3) | 6,999 (88.7) | 7,889 (100.0) | |
| Kimmirut | 389 | 180 (7.8) | 2,115 (92.2) | 2,295 (100.0) | |
| Pangnirtung | 1,481 | 733 (9.0) | 7,431 (91.0) | 8,164 (100.0) | |
| Pond Inlet | 1,617 | 860 (11.6) | 6,532 (88.4) | 7,392 (100.0) | |
| Qikiqtarjuaq | 598 | 214 (7.6) | 2,600 (92.4) | 2,814 (100.0) | |
| Year | |||||
| 2012 | 546 (8.6) | 5,826 (91.4) | 6,372 (100.0) | <0.001 | |
| 2013 | 462 (7.2) | 5,991 (92.8) | 6,453 (100.0) | ||
| 2014 | 608 (9.0) | 6,142 (91.0) | 6,750 (100.0) | ||
| 2015 | 663 (9.2) | 6,525 (90.8) | 7,188 (100.0) | ||
| 2016 | 761 (9.9) | 6,958 (90.2) | 7,719 (100.0) | ||
| 2017 | 935 (11.6) | 7,150 (88.4) | 8,085 (100.0) | ||
| 2018 | 993 (12.8) | 6,767 (87.2) | 7,760 (100.0) | ||
| Month | |||||
| January | 392 (8.7) | 4,097 (91.3) | 4,489 (100.0) | <0.001 | |
| February | 372 (9.7) | 3,473 (90.3) | 3,845 (100.0) | ||
| March | 444 (10.7) | 3,698 (89.3) | 4,142 (100.0) | ||
| April | 445 (9.9) | 4,059 (90.1) | 4,504 (100.0) | ||
| May | 484 (10.3) | 4,219 (89.7) | 4,703 (100.0) | ||
| June | 419 (9.0) | 4,221 (91.0) | 4,640 (100.0) | ||
| July | 398 (11.0) | 3,230 (89.0) | 3,628 (100.0) | ||
| August | 448 (11.0) | 3,640 (89.0) | 4,088 (100.0) | ||
| September | 447 (9.8) | 4,117 (90.2) | 4,564 (100.0) | ||
| October | 429 (9.3) | 4,168 (90.7) | 4,597 (100.0) | ||
| November | 366 (8.8) | 3,805 (91.2) | 4,171 (100.0) | ||
| December | 324 (11.0) | 2,632 (89.0) | 2,956 (100.0) | ||
| Physicians | |||||
| Present | 716 (9.4) | 6,917 (90.6) | 7,633 (100.0) | 0.118 | |
| Not present | 4,252 (10.0) | 38,442 (90.0) | 42,694 (100.0) |
*Community size is based on the 2016 census data [14]. As it was implicit in the statistical analysis, yearly variation has no impact on the modeling. Accurate annual data is also not available.