The Isle of Wight Council has revealed the 4 areas on the Island where there are significant unjust and avoidable differences in health.
The team found the top 4 areas on the Island disproportionately impacted by health inequalities are:
- Parkhurst, Hunnyhill, Pan and Barton
- Ryde Central Wards
- The Bay Area
- Freshwater and Yarmouth
Health organisations and public authorities were urged to work together, at Thursday’s health and wellbeing board meeting, to fix the problem.
The Island’s public health team said the latest data demonstrates people of all ages who live in poorer communities die earlier than those in the wealthiest. They also said worrying about making ends meet, buying healthy food or heating homes can lead to chronic stress, poor health and lives being cut short. In the Bay Area, deprivation is higher than the Island average for older people and children, and it has a higher proportion of older people living along than in the average in England.
It also has significantly worse admission rates than the national average for intentional self-harm and alcohol harm and significantly worse incidences of all cancers.
In Freshwater and Yarmouth, there is an acutely older population with a level of limiting long-term illness or disability that is higher than the national average.
Paired with lower levels of internet use, the public health team said this could mean people are more susceptible to loneliness and social isolation. The area also has worse health outcomes for breast and prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Poorer health outcomes in Parkhurst, Hunnyhill, Pan and Barton, were not driven by old age, the public health team has found, but by multiple areas of deprivation and the prison population. Disability, hospital admissions and early deaths are higher in the area than nationally with significantly worse admissions for intentional self-harm and alcohol-attributable conditions.
In Ryde Central, overcrowding and full poverty are more prevalent and more people are living alone but they may experience more barriers which prevent them from adopting and maintaining healthy behaviours. There are higher rates of admissions for intentional self-harm and alcohol but lower rates of emergency hospital admissions overall.
Public health says ill health in the area is driven by preventable conditions, social factors or building blocks which make it challenging for younger people to live in good health.
IW Council chief executive Wendy Perera said:
“If we are truly committed to doing something different and changing the health outcomes of Island residents it is within our gift to do that but we have to actively work together going forward.”
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Drugs and alcohol are the PREFERED choice of many compared with taking exercise for joy and drinking water or fruit juices and less harmful drinks
Burgers, fast foods, takeaways, junk food and sweets are the PREFERED choices of many over fish, veg and other more healthy foods.
SURE they will agree with the findings IF it means more money is given to them to ‘buy’ healthy foods and drinks, BUT they will instead blow on the unhealthy lifestyle they CHOOSE to live.
We should let them imo, as the sooner they are removed from this life the more the tax payer, council tax payer save, and with many the better society becomes as often being troublesome goes hand in hand with drink and drug users.
FREEDOM of choice is a right
So you say freedom of choice is a right, then you go and have a dig at people for, if you pardon the pun, exercising that right. Smart.
Write everyone off and tar with the same old brush. You’ve never had problems I’m guessing lucky you
Some of us never have a choice, if your are lucky enough never to get bowel cancer and to have half you innards taken out to survive, I have to try and eat 5000 calories a day just to try and stay belfry, the reason for that is where I have most of my indices missing, to get the 5000 calories I myself have to eat food like whst you described in you message earlier, its not a case of people just eating rubbish, sometimes people have to actually eat stuff like that to survive, I do really hope you don’t get something like whst I have, because I’m sure you wouldn’t of written that message, some people cannot simply afford the better food as you put it,
So overcrowding is a problem in Ryde, who would have thought. And yet where are the big housebuilding projects? And the council think they can solve this, yeah right.
Poor people apparently die earlier. But treatment is funded by the rich who pay more NI to fund the NHS.
Yet people hate the Tories and think they are “killing” the NHS. Hmmmmmm
If NI funds the NHS, how come the country is in debt?
The NHS is funded mainly from general taxation, only a small amount comes from NI. Get your facts right before spouting your hate.
Who am I hating here?
YES, I AGREE, BRING BACK THE VICTORIAN WORK HOUSES……..
Nothing but peasants, know your place in this society, how dare you question the status qua !
DIVIDE AND CONQUER……….imo…….# class war.com
Just words Wendy Perera. You’re only interested in what you earn and that expenses you can claim. You’re stealing a living off the back of peoples misery. Shame on you, l
In Ryde Central, overcrowding and full poverty
Wouldn’t be if they didn’t keep on encouraging benefit sponging asylum seekers to move here as well as all the other freeloaders
Perhaps if you are that worried about people’s health and wellbeing Wendy Perera , you could give everyone a break by not raising the council tax??¿?
Then people maybe able to afford food gas and electricity etc …..
It’s OK for those that earn a massive wage and look forward to a fat pension …….
Stop building, stop rinsing us dry , stop wasting our money.!!!!!!!
Word’s come cheap action’s speak louder !!!!!!!!
Of course no mention that the massive cost of living scandal, the unaffordable heating scandal, the lack of available housing scandal have all been caused by deliberate Whitehall and Westminster policymaking supported by all the major parties – mass uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration, the 2 year Covid lockdown that destroyed lives, cost £700 billion and drove inflation through the roof, the globalist obsession with forcing net zero on the public causing crippling rises in energy bills and scarcity of unreliable ‘sustainable’ supplies – everything that is now a problem can be traced back to the political class and the execrable bureaucrats in Whitehall who run this country so don’t expect any of them to fix it
Whaaat!? Why not build abc create places for young people to go? Feel useful and welcome then? Integrate different age groups and end loneliness in the community because it doesn’t need to be that way: take away temptation and creation incentives for people instead of doing absolutely nothing and then berating and moaning about them
Anybody who reside in these areas who state their health is not good, perhaps they should consider, if they smoke, take drugs or drink alcohol………to give up!
If they don’t have a job and are perfectly capable of working, make the effort and find a job. Sitting at home, day after day, month after month isn’t good for anyone. Especially if all they do is puff on fags and stay on Social Media all day! Not good for anyone’s ‘mental health’.