Health and Lifestyles in Wirral
Synopsis:
We have published this report to provide a picture of the health and
lifestyle of people living in Wirral. It provides new information on
important aspects of health that contribute towards the biggest causes
of illness and disease in England today. With this information, we want
to ensure that health and social policy in future helps people to make
healthy lifestyle choices.
Non-communicable diseases such as coronary heart disease (CHD) and
diabetes are largely preventable if healthy lifestyle choices such as
not smoking or keeping active can be maintained. Lifestyle risk factors
also play a part in the development of some cancers as well as mental
health problems and life-limiting conditions such as arthritis, back
pain and immobility. This report provides data on a representative
sample of the adult population and will help health organisations and
their partner agencies to:
- Estimate the prevalence of certain lifestyle risk factors such
as smoking, inactivity, alcohol consumption, diet and body mass
- Consider how different groups of people in Wirral have different
lifestyle risk factors including people of different ages, sex and
economic status.
- Compare the lifestyle of people in Wirral with those in other
areas such as Merseyside and Cheshire or the rest of England.
- Find out how lifestyle has changed over the eight years since
the last health and lifestyle survey in Wirral.
Whilst lifestyle can be a matter of choice, there are many different
influences that affect that choice. These include money, where we live,
the way we are given information and the services and products we have
access to. We are committed to reducing death rates from diseases such
as cancers and CHD, especially amongst those people who are most at
risk.
We will use the information in this report to help make healthy choices
more accessible and more appealing across Wirral.
Professor Mark A. Bellis
Director of Public Health
Birkenhead and Wallasey Primary Care Trust
To download the full report please
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For further information please see:
www.wirralpct.nhs.uk |
