JSNA 2024 Climate and Health
This update is one of a series for the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment in 2024. It is published here in draft form ahead of the Health and Wellbeing board’s September meeting. It builds on the evidence gathered to inform the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2023-24 on Climate and Health.
It includes data on the following topics:
- Carbon emissions and energy
- Temperature
- Air
- Water
- Food
- Nature
The review of climate data for Oxfordshire shows that:
- Road transport emissions accounted for 32% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. The number of licensed plug-in cars in Oxfordshire has been increasing.
- Across Oxfordshire, the majority of healthcare facilities find themselves in areas of medium or high heat risk.
- Fuel poverty across all districts in Oxfordshire has worsened since last year, with each district seeing an increase in the proportion of homes which are classified as fuel poor.
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It is estimated that fine particulate air pollution’s effect on mortality in Oxfordshire was equivalent to 354 deaths in 2022. Note that this is not an estimate of deaths directly caused by air pollution but a total representing the contribution of air pollution to all deaths.
- Areas of Oxfordshire at higher risk of flooding include some of the county’s most deprived areas.
- According to the Priority Places for Food Index (PPFI), Oxford contains the greatest number of highest priority areas (rank 1) both as an absolute number (10) and as a percentage of the total in the district (12%).
- Oxfordshire’s greenspace-deprived neighbourhoods are in the more deprived areas of Barton, Littlemore, Northfield Brook and Blackbird Leys.
If you have any questions about this release, please contact us at jsna@oxfordshire.gov.uk.
16 September 2024
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