Choosing Health in Bracknell
Dr Don Sinclair Acting Director of Public Health Key messages
• Easier for everyone to choose health in the way we live our lives • Health policy to inform and encourage us also to shape the commercial and cultural environment • Specific interventions to help disadvantaged people make more healthy choices and ensure that all other interventions meet their needs Determinants of healthDeterminants of health Index of Deprivation - 2004
Horton
Whistley Green Shurlock Row
Woodley Hawthorn Hill Wraysbury
Hurst Warfield Winkfield Cranbourne
Binfield Winkfield Row
Winnersh Englefield Green
BracknellBracknell Sindlesham North Ascot AscotAscot WokinghamWokingham
Easthampstead Sunninghill Sunningdale
Arborfield Cross Barkham
Arborfield Garrison
Index of Multiple Deprivation Finchampstead by Electoral Ward (Quantiles) Most Deprived
Sandhurst
Least Deprived Source: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Indices of Deprivation 2004
IoD_2004.wor 5/5/2004 Revised 14/7/2004 Sid Beauchant BPHN/BHIS Choosing Health: making healthy choices easier
6 Key priorities: – Reducing tobacco use – Reducing obesity (healthy diet, promoting exercise) – Sexual Health – Sensible use of alcohol – Mental Health – Inequalities
Prevalence of overweight and Obesity in children (Health Survey for England