Health and Disability

deprivation in Southampton

By Gavin Barker

This map looks at health and disability

deprivation in Southampton

• It ranks and scores tiny

geographical areas called Lower

Super Output Areas or LSOA’s

• Lower Super Output areas contain

approximate populations of 1,000 to

1,500 people

• An area is characterised as deprived

relative to other areas in England on

the basis of the proportion of people in

the area experiencing the type of

deprivation in question – in this case

health & disability

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It also looks at health and disability deprivation in relation to

other dimensions or ‘domains’ of deprivation

• Income

• Employment

• Education & Skills

• Health & Disability

• Living Environment

• Barriers to Housing & Services

• Crime

There are seven domains of

deprivation

Different domains of deprivation are measured differently and for this reason you cannot

compare exact scores – but you can compare their decile rank.

It is useful to do this because health deprivation is affected by other issues that cannot be

addressed in isolation from each other. Let’s look at a few examples.

Health challenges that these individuals face are

interlinked to other urgent needs

• A single mother on anti-depressants

struggles to hold down a job while

balancing child care responsibilities

• A patient’s health deteriorates during a

long spell of unemployment. While he

has recently found a job, he fears he will

lose it if he takes more time out to attend

the diabetic clinic

• An obese patient whose housing

problems still haven’t been resolved is

given advice about healthy eating and

exercise.

Trying to address health issues in

isolation from other needs will not work.

Examples

Health

Housing Employment

What applies at the individual level

also applies at local area level

Health

Housing Employment

SOUTHAMPTON

Key Challenges

The health of people in Southampton is

generally worse than the England average.

Tooth decay

in children

are worse

than the

English

average

Levels of

teenage

pregnancy

are higher

Smoking related

deaths are

significantly

higher Source: Public Health

Observatories

Estimated levels

of adult 'healthy

eating' are worse

than the England

average

Key

Challeng

es

20.5% of year 6

children are

classified as

obese

Life expectancy is 7.7 years lower for men in the

most

deprived areas of Southampton compared to the

least

deprived areas*

* Same as the England average.

Based on the Slope Index of

Inequality published on 5th

January 2011

Child Poverty • Southampton has a relatively high number of

children living in poverty compared to other

areas

• This is revealed in research by the charity Save

The Children which points out that in 2009, the

wealth of Britain’s one thousand richest people

rose by one-third to more than £333 billion. And

yet, in the fifth wealthiest country in the world,

1.6m youngsters in the UK live in

"severe poverty"

• The government's surveys defines severe

poverty as a household with half the average

income - for a family of four this would be pay of

less than £12,500.

• The definition also includes material deprivation.

For example, this would mean children were

unable to take a holiday or invite friends home

for tea and adults were not able to pay for

repairs to fridges or afford insurance

Links Save the

Children spreadsheet