Mapping Wellness Inequality

Life expectancy inward the Great Britain has begun to autumn for the showtime fourth dimension inward over 100 years. The top dog displace for this surprising rising inward premature expiry is the Conservative Party.

Of shape I jest. The Conservative government's morbid austerity programme isn't responsible for the UK's falling life expectancy. Neither is it responsible for the glaring wellness inequality which the University of East Anglia argues is a major displace for the higher rates of premature mortality inward the UK's most deprived areas.

The UEA's Year's Lost interactive map shows how many years of life are lost inward each local authorization expanse inward the UK. Regions on the map are colored to present the seat out of years lost to premature mortality. If y'all pick out a share on the map y'all tin thought how many years are lost inward that expanse to each of the top dog causes of premature death. The map equally good includes the pick to thought where private causes of expiry are responsible for the most years of premature mortality. Select an private displace of expiry as well as y'all tin thought a choropleth map showing how many years were lost to that displace inward each Great Britain local authorization area.

The UEA's inquiry shows that the rates of premature mortality are twice equally high inward the most deprived areas of England when compared to the rates inward the most affluent areas. However the Conservative Party is non listed equally a displace of premature mortality. It would thence hold upward malicious to propose that they are inward whatever agency responsible for the UK's shocking wellness inequality or the UK's abrupt driblet inward life expectancy.