Your Health

This is an exciting time for Public Health in South Staffordshire. The Government's White Paper, 'Choosing Health' (2004), set out key principles to help and support us to make more informed and healthier choices about our health.

Many of us are now living longer and healthier lives but this is not necessarily the case for all of us - there are considerable differences in health between those at the top and those at the bottom of the social scale. In South Staffordshire over 48,000 of us live in the some of the most deprived communities in the UK. Higher income can make health choices easier but better education can help all of us to understand the risks associated with poor health and to stay healthy.

South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) understands the importance of addressing these inequalities in health. We aim to create a society where more of us, particularly those of us who are disadvantaged in some way, have the confidence to make lifestyle choices to help us to live longer but also healthier and happier.

 

 

The number of elderly people, here in South Staffordshire is expected to increase more than many other areas in England. As well as providing support to those of us who are already older we need to help the many thousands of us who are now in our forties, fifties or sixties in particular, to understand the importance of making lifestyle choices now to help prevent the onset of long-term conditions in the future.

The PCT is working hard to protect and improve your health by helping you to:

• get immunised and vaccinated
• go “smokefree”
• drink sensibly
• understand more about substance misuse
• eat well and be active
• protect and improve your family’s health for a healthy and happy future
• improve your emotional and mental health
• improve your sexual health
• protect against or manage long-term conditions
• manage your medicines

This ‘Your Health’ web page will give you help and advice in each of these areas as well as relevant links to local services and some more specialist websites. There is also a section called ‘Public Health Intelligence’ which gives information about our population as well as intelligence about what we die from, the diseases we suffer from along with the lifestyle differences that so intrinsically affect our health and well-being.

Any comments on the content and ease of use of this web page are most welcome. Please contact us at PublicHealthIntelligence@southstaffspct.nhs.uk.

Below is a range of reports that have been produced to help us understand the health of our population:

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2010 (4Mb)
• Public Health Annual Report 2010 (2.85Mb)
• Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Cardiovascular Disease in South Staffordshire,
  The Annual Report of the Director of Public Health for South Staffordshire 2009 (8.26Mb)
• Mind the Gap - A five year public health plan to address Health Inequalities in South Staffordshire (204k)
• Health and Alcohol in South Staffordshire - On track or off the rails?
  The Director of Public Health's Annual Report (March 2008) (1.39Mb)
• Health Profile of South Staffordshire 2009 (2.07Mb)

We have also produced a range of health and wellbeing profiles at local authority level, click here to access these

Click here to find out more about the South Staffordshire PCT's Public Health Directorate

Note : All the documents contained within the site are available for download in PDF format. You can download the Adobe Reader from the Adobe website.