reasons why health inequalities exist
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- Created on: 28-01-22 13:59
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- Reasons why health inequalities exist
- poverty
- "poverty takes over 30 years of your life" - world health organisation report
- only 3/4 of boys and 85% of girls in Glasgow will reach their 65th birthday
- 1/3 of early deaths and ill health could be prevented if whole population lived in same circumstance as affluent areas - NHS Scotland 2018
- In Glasgow 1/4 of population are classed as deprived
- alcohol and drug abuse
- daily alcohol intake for both men and women is 25% higher in Scotland compared to England
- "booze culture" has lead to killing of 40 Scots per week - NHS
- The number of drug related deaths in Scotland has doubled since 1995 from under 400 to over 600 in 2016
- Scotland's drug death rate is one of the highest in Europe - 27 times higher than Portugal
- smoking
- crucial factor to ill health in deprived areas
- In 2017 35% of deprived areas were smokers, only 10% in least deprived areas
- Every year there are more than 13,000 related smoking deaths in Scotland alone
- Scotland has highest rate of smokers in Uk
- Scottish lung cancer rates for women increased by over 90%
- obesity
- 65% of Scots are overweight or obese
- Around 6% of affluent areas at risk of obesity compared to 13% in deprived areas
- obesity estimated to cost NHS Scotland£600 million a year
- Although obesity levels have stayed stable since 2008, it is still progressively more common in women and people in deprivation
- poverty
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