THE INEQUITY OF HEALTH IN SOLIHULL

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THE INEQUITY OF HEALTH IN SOLIHULL

• PRIORITIES FOR THE HEALTH SCRUTINY BOARD
• 2006-07

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UNDERSTANDING THE DRIVERS OF INEQUITY OF HEALTH
EXPERIENCE
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PRIORITY ACTION AREAS SOLIHULL PARTNERSHIP THEME
GROUP

• Improved Living Environment
• Reduced Unemployment and Improved Income
• Early Years Support for Children and Families
• Improved Educational Development and Skills
  Attainment
• Improved Access to Key Services
• Reducing Risks for Developing Heart Disease and
  Cancer, particularly smoking.

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Improved Living Environment

• The number of homes with internal conditions
  likely to exacerbate respiratory ill health
• Fuel poverty
• Serious accidental injury requiring hospital
  admission for more than three days

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Reduced Unemployment and Improved Income

• Reduce the proportion of working age people out
  of work for more than a year
• Reduce the numbers of people living in relative
  poverty

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Early Years Support for Children and Families

• The experience of families and staff at Sure
  Start clearly shows that enabling families to be
  proper partners in the work results in greater
  good health and achievement for all the members
  of the family
• OUTCOME
• the development of a local integrated family and
  client centred service strategy

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Improved Educational Development and Skills
Attainment

• Reduction in the educational attainment gap
  between schools and vulnerable groups of young
  people
• Wider participation in adult and community
  learning to include previous non learners and
  those with extra needs

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Improved Access to Key Services

• Local People are routinely involved in decisions
  about services
• Multiple Gateways into a range of services to
  reduce access barriers
• The sites of opportunities to promote good health
  or delivering health and social care services are
  planned to deliberately reduce inequities

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Reducing Risks for Developing Heart Disease and
Cancer, particularly smoking

• Proven determinants of disease are tackled.
• Disease is detected early and treated.
• Provide evidence based services for diagnosis,
  treatment and care of those with heart disease
  and cancer in order to improve the quality of
  life and avoid premature death

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PRIORITY ACTION AREAS

• Improved Living Environment
• Reduced Unemployment and Improved Income
• Early Years Support for Children and Families
• Improved Educational Development and Skills
  Attainment
• Improved Access to Key Services
• Reducing Risks for Developing Heart Disease and
  Cancer, particularly smoking.