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. “Inclusion health” is a term for people who are socially excluded and typically experience multiple overlapping risk factors for poor health such as poverty, violence, and complex trauma.

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Inclusion health refers to people who are or experience:

• homelessness
• drug and alcohol dependence
• vulnerable migrants
• Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities
• sex workers
• people in contact with the justice system and
• victims of modern slavery

People belonging to inclusion groups tend to have very poor health outcomes, often much worse than the general population and a lower average age of death. This contributes considerably to increasing health inequalities. Health Inclusion indicators by district (where available) show:

• Oxford had the highest rates of households owed a homeless duty, victims of modern slavery, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller population and unpaid carers.
• Cherwell had the highest rates of alcohol-related hospital admission and victims/survivors of domestic abuse.
• West Oxfordshire had the highest rate of specified Immigration groups.

If you have any questions about this release, please contact us at jsna@oxfordshire.gov.uk.