Co Durham: Health Statistics
The 2008 Health profile for the County makes some interesting reading. It sets the County in context nationally, so here are some highlights with the Good News and the Bad News:
Good News
- Below average violent crime
- Above average physically active children
- Below average drug misuse
- Below average new cases of Tuberculosis
- Below average road injuries and deaths
Bad News
- Above average deprivation
- Above average children in poverty
- Above average statutory homelessness
- Above average smoking in pregnancy
- Below average number of mothers who start breast-feeding
- Above average numbers of teenage pregnancies
- Above average numbers of adults binge drinking
- Below average numbers of adults eating healthily
- Above average claimants of incapacity benefits arising from mental illness
- Above average number of alcohol related hospital stays
- Above average hip fractures in over 65s
- Below average male life expectancy
- Below average female life expectancy
- Above average deaths from smoking
- Above average early deaths from strokes, heart disease and cancer
We all know that there are lies, damned lies and statistics, but would anyone doubt that as a county we’ve got a long way to go in terms of health improvement?
For more details go to www.healthprofiles.info
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