JSNA Healthy People
Healthy People – Data Summary
Our health is one of the most important assets we have as individuals, communities, and society. Health is a state of physical, mental, and social wellbeing, and can be different for different people. For example, for one person, the most important thing for their health might be whether they are able to spend time with those they love. For another, it might be their ability to work and support their family. Summary statistics can help us describe key aspects of health across different life stages within our communities and population on the Isle of Wight.
Local public health teams work in collaboration with other organisations to empower people to take control of their own health, reduce health inequalities and, ultimately, to prevent people experiencing ill health in the first place. This chapter focuses on the health outcomes of our population and the health inequalities which are evident.
The data in this report can be explored further by smaller geographies in the JSNA Healthy People data report
Mental Health and Wellbeing
This chapter focuses on:
- Adult Mental Health disorders: self-reporting wellbeing and prevalence of common mental health disorders
- Children and Young People Wellbeing and common mental health disorders
- Serious Mental Illness (SMI): Prevalence, outcomes, health checks, admissions and mortality
- Mental Health Services: Referrals and admissions
Wellbeing is not just the absence of disease or illness and can be impacted by a person's physical, mental and emotional health and wider determinant factors, such as work, housing, relationships and education. Wellbeing is strongly linked to happiness and life satisfaction. In short, wellbeing could be described as how you feel about yourself and your life.
Mental Health and Wellbeing - Full Report
Population Groups
This chapter explores certain population groups including: carers; people with learning disability; special education needs and disabilities; and inclusion health groups. Each of these groups have an increased risk of adverse outcomes:
- Unpaid carers are more than twice as likely to suffer from poor health compared to people without caring responsibilities
- People with learning disabilities often have different and complex health care needs leading to increased prescribing and polypharmacy
- Special educational needs' is a legal definition and refers to children with learning problems or disabilities that make it harder for them to learn than most children the same age
- Inclusion Health Groups is a ‘catch-all’ term used to describe people who are socially excluded, typically experience multiple overlapping risk factors for poor health (such as poverty, violence and complex trauma), experience stigma and discrimination, and are not consistently accounted for in electronic records (such as healthcare databases)
Population Groups - Full Report
Older adults
This chapter is focused on older adults, exploring the prevalence of reduced mobility, incontinence, sensory impairments, falls, dementia and frailty. Much of the data used in this section applies national survey proportions to local population data to estimate the numbers of people experiencing these conditions as no reliable local data exists. Development of these conditions can be interlinked and therefore older people may experience a number of these conditions so the separate counts should not be combined together. Many of these conditions can be mitigated through healthy lifestyle factors such as good diet and physical activity.
Older adults - Full Report
Health of the Working Age Population
This report aims to better understand the person and place based characteristics of our working age population. Trends in premature mortality and healthy life expectancy will provide context to the overall measure of our population’s health. Health data including benefits data will be explored to provide detailed insight into the health of our population and the physical and mental health challenges they may be experiencing. The Health of the Working Age Population data report will cover the Hampshire and Isle of Wight council areas.