For info...
If subscribers wish to use the tube line analogy for teaching the
London Health Observatory published this several years ago. The Jubilee
line has an even more shocking just under 1 year of life lost for every
tube stop.
http://www.lho.org.uk/HEALTH_INEQUALITIES/HealthInequalities.aspx
Though absolute deaths have dropped, social inequalities are increasing,
and at a faster rate in Scotland
http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/58/4/296
By area...premature mortality
Worst Five (men and women)
72.9 - Glasgow City
74.2 - Inverclyde
74.3 - West Dunbartonshire
74.8 - North Lanarkshire
74.8 - Manchester
Best Five (men and women)
82.4 - Kensington and Chelsea
81.8 - East Dorset
81.7 - Hart
81.4 - Guildford
81.4 - Rutland
Powerpoint slide (map) for teaching here:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7498/1016/FIG2
Source: Shaw M et al (2005) BMJ 30:1016-1021 (30 April),
doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1016
Dr Hillary Shaw wrote:
> According to media figures on this report,
>
> Life expectancy, Oxford, men = 77, women = 82.
> Life expectancy, Liverpool, men = 73, women = 78
>
> This means if you drive from Oxford to Liverpool, on average life
> expectancy drops by one week for every minute you are driving northwards.
>
> There's an even steeper death gradient on London's District line, travel
> east from Sloane Square to Barking and life expectancy drops by about
> three months per stop (on average), or well over a month a minute.
>
> Hillary Shaw, Newport, Shropshire
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