Public Health annual report 2023 on health inequalities in Stockport

Read Jilla Burgess-Allens' foreword on her first annual report as Director of Public Health.

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Introduction to the report

Health inequalities are unfair and preventable. In Stockport these inequalities have been too wide for too long. We'll have to do something more and something different to shift them.
Summary of recommendations

A summary of the recommendations found in the annual report.
What do we mean by health inequalities?

Health inequalities are the differences in health and access to healthcare between different groups of people, caused by the conditions in which they live, work, and grow up; also known as the wider determinants of health
Population of Stockport and health inequalities

Stockport is one of the most polarised boroughs in England and both the most deprived and least deprived areas of Greater Manchester lie within Stockport.
Wider determinants of health

Take a closer look at the factors that cause health inequalities in Stockport, how they arise, and examples of local initiatives that are helping to narrow the gap.
Case studies

Read the case studies for each wider determinant of health.