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.
Full report of the 2022-23 Healthy Weight Needs Assessment.
Living with excess weight poses a significant challenge to living a healthy life. It is one of the leading causes of preventable early deaths, increasing the risks for a wide range of health. It is associated with worse mental health and lower educational attainment in children and needing to take more sick leave in adults. Excess weight also comes with high social costs due to its impact on residents’ quality of life and increased need for health and social care, costing an estimated 3% of the UK’s GDP.
The focus of this needs assessment is on preventing and addressing excess weight.
Summary slides with key findings from the 2022-23 Healthy Weight Needs Assessment.
Living with excess weight poses a significant challenge to living a healthy life. It is one of the leading causes of preventable early deaths, increasing the risks for a wide range of health. It is associated with worse mental health and lower educational attainment in children and needing to take more sick leave in adults. Excess weight also comes with high social costs due to its impact on residents’ quality of life and increased need for health and social care, costing an estimated 3% of the UK’s GDP.
The focus of this needs assessment is on preventing and addressing excess weight.
This bitesize shows the latest Public Health indicator on air pollution for Oxfordshire, the South East region and England and the estimated mortality attributed to air pollution compared with other causes of death.
It includes a map showing emissions of particulate matter in 2021 across Oxfordshire.
