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Choosing Health in Salford
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How healthy is Salford?

• Health in Salford is getting better
• Life expectancy going up, cancers etc going down
• However, much more slowly in Salford than England
  as a whole
• People in Salford still die at a younger age and
  suffer from a greater number of illnesses in
  Salford than in England as a whole
• Within Salford, people in the east of the city
  have worse health than the west

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Why?
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Smoking

• One in five of all deaths in Salford each year
  are smoking related
• Half of smokers will die at a younger age than
  normal due to smoking
• More than one in three people in Salford smokes
• This is many more than in England as a whole
• The age at which people die is therefore much
  younger

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Smoking the good news

• Fewer people smoke now than ever before
• Every week, lots of people in Salford give up
  smoking through the Stop Smoking Service or on
  their own
• The health benefits of giving up smoking are felt
  at any age
• Its never too late to give up smoking

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Obesity

• As a nation, we are larger than ever before
• 23 of the population are classed as obese
• In Salford, 30,000 adults are obese
• 140,000 adults are overweight
• Cause diabetes, heart disease, some cancers
• Obesity robs us of a decade of life
• Many children will die before their parents

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Any good news?

• Now on the national agenda as a key issue
• Locally we are taking this seriously
• Strategy being developed to tackle the issue
• Food and physical activity workers have joined
  together to form the Food and Physical Activity
  Partnership
• Still a huge public health issue
• Rates going up every year

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Why are we getting larger?
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Energy in, energy out

• The number of calories we consume (energy in)
  has gone up
• Our diets are now high in calories (plus
  saturated fat, sugar and salt) and low in fruit,
  veg and fibre
• The amount of energy we expend (Energy out) has
  gone down
• We dont do enough exercise to burn the calories
  off

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Why?
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Energy in

• Decline of cooking skills
• Rise of fast food restaurants
• Cheapness of ready meals/takeaway options
• Food labelling confusing

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Energy out

• Car ownership
• Work more sedentary, long hours
• Rise of home based entertainment ie computer
  games/DVDs
• Concern with crime and anti-social behaviour

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Choosing Health

• Government document
• Help people choose a healthier lifestyle ie eat
  more healthily, do more physical activity, not
  smoke
• Salford is developing its own local version
• What role can the City Council play?

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What do we mean by the Council?

• Schools
• Parks
• Housing
• Environment
• Call centres
• Social Services/social care
• Employment of Salford residents

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Questions obesity

• Q1 What does the community you live in need to
  achieve a healthier diet?
• Q2 What can the Council do to help this?
• Q3 What does the community you live in need to be
  more physically active?
• Q4 What can the Council do to help?

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Questions Smoking

• Q5 What do members of the community who smoke
  need to help them quit smoking?
• Q6 How can we help prevent young people in our
  community from smoking?
• Q7 What else can the council do to help?

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How and when to respond

• Today - via Community Committee
• Directly to your Neighbourhood Manager
• Dont need to respond to all questions
• Please respond by DATE