Health Briefi ng • Each year about 380 people in Wyre Forest are admitted to hospital and 165 die due to smoking- related diseases. • Nearly 700 people in Wyre Forest are admitted to hospital and about 50 die due to alcohol- attributable conditions each year • Over 120 people in Wyre Forest die each year from accidents of whom more than 35 die from road-traffi c accidents • St Marys has the highest rate of both smoking and heavy drinking, whereas St Johns has the highest rate of obesity from the 2005 survey • St Marys also had the highest rate of hospital admissions for CHD and along with St Johns and Stourport-on-Severn had relatively high rates of admission for cancers • Mortality rates from CHD and smoking-related diseases were far higher in St Marys than any other area. St Johns had the next highest rate of both these, again far higher than any except St Marys • St Marys also had the highest mortality from alcohol, although this and accidents, where the highest was , varied less

Map of Wyre Forest Showing Index of Multiple Deprivation

IMD 2007 National Deciles 1 (Most Deprived) (0) 2 (0) 3 (3) 5 (5) 6 (5) Kingsford 7 (11) StSt GeorgeGeorge & StSt OswaldOswald 8 (5) 9 (13) 10 (Least Deprived) (15) Cookley,Cookley, WolverleyWolverley & WribbenhallWribbenhall W olverley

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© Crown Copyright Lifestyle Risk Factors by Electoral Division in Wyre Forest Lifestyle data are from 60% the Regional Lifestyle Heavy Survey 2005, which was Smoking Drinking Obesity Electoral Division a postal survey of over 50% Wyre Forest Average 50,000 residents of the Average . 40% The rates are shown with 95% confi dence in- 30% tervals, which allow sig- nifi cant differences to be seen. 20% Heavy drinking is de- 10% fi ned as people who drank more than the recommended drinking 0% Bewdley Chaddesley Cookley, St Barnabas St Chads St George & St Johns St Marys Stourport-on- limits in the week prior to & St Oswald Severn the survey. Wribbenhall

Hospital Admission Rates by Electoral Division in Wyre Forest Hospital admissions 800 are shown for the years Smoking 2005-06 to 2007-08 com- All Related 700 CHD Cancers Diseases bined as rates standard- Electoral Division Wyre Forest Average ised for differences in the 600 Worcestershire Average age distribution in the populations of the differ- 500 ent areas and are given per 100,000 population. 400 The population base 300 used are County Coun- cil estimates of resident 200 population for 2005.

100 Smoking-related diseas- es are as for the mortal- 0 ity chart below. Bewdley Chaddesley Cookley, St Barnabas St Chads St George & St Johns St Marys Stourport-on- Wolverley & St Oswald Severn Wribbenhall

Mortality Rates by Electoral Division in Wyre Forest Mortality data are shown 900 for the 5 years 2003 to 2007 combined. Stand- 800 Smoking Alcohol ardised rates are used to Related Specific CHD Diseases Diseases Accidents account for different age 700 Electoral Division structures and are given Wyre Forest Average Worcestershire Average per 100,000 population. 600

500 Smoking-related dis- eases are calculated 400 by taking a proportion of diseases which re- 300 search shows are linked to smoking. 200 Alcohol-specifi c diseas- 100 es are those which are 0 exclusively caused by Bewdley Chaddesley Cookley, St Barnabas St Chads St George & St Johns St Marys Stourport-on- alcohol and do not in- Wolverley & St Oswald Severn clude other causes with Wribbenhall a link to alcvohol