It’s government health profile time again. Building on last years snapshot of the health demographic of UK PLC the facts and figures present themselves as a kind of health league table. The constant that runs through those figures is that wealth and poverty are clearly linked to your state of health and life expectancy. The South generally has positive results whilst the north west again rates high for smoking, drinking and heart disease. The north/South divide lives on in the facts and figures.
The Good Bits
Chiltern, in Buckinghamshire, has the lowest number of deaths from smoking at 147 deaths per 100,000 people
Kensington and Chelsea has the fewest deaths from cancer with 81 deaths per 100,000 people
St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has the fewest people admitted to hospital with alcohol-related problems at 85 per 100,000
The Bad Bits
Easington, in County Durham, has the highest proportion of adult smokers at 37%
Liverpool as the highest rate of hospital admissions for alcohol-related problems at 652 per 100,000
Boston, in Lincolnshire, has the highest proportion of obese adults at 31%
Check your own region statistics (UK) here
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