Public Health Suffolk, part of Suffolk County Council, have just issued a report “A Time to Change: Working Towards Better Health for All in Suffolk” focussing on health inequalities in the communities,.
PHS pride themselves that the report is in digital form but you would be hard pressed to find the strategies and policies required to alleviate health inequalities.
The report was featured in the East Anglian Daily Times of 8th December with the comment that the data was from between 2009 and 2013 (apparently the latest available).
Which prompts the question “Why bother?” There are plenty of more current health inequality indications. The most obvious are reports from doctors’ surgeries as to local illnesses and prescriptions. Similarly, you could also identify hot areas by looking at the incidence of free school meals. You do not have to look at data which is seven years old.
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