This report evaluates the most significant factor (poverty) in Glasgow which influencing the health and illness in this community in order to demonstrate all causes and explain how better health might be promoted to improve. in western Europe, Scotland has been a part of countries with the lowest life expectancy and between all cities in Scotland, Glasgow has had the most important health factors such as drug abuse, lung cancer, murder or suicide. Glasgow 's mortality rates are the highest in Britain, and the highest in Europe. Life expectancy at birth in Glasgow is the lowest in the UK. As David Walsh, a lead researcher at Glasgow Centre for Population Health adds: "You are talking about thousands of people dying before their time."
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Dep-rivation and poverty have a direct connection together, when there is deprivation in a community, for sure there will be poverty in there. Glasgow has identified as the most de-prived city in Scotland. As some statistics on diagram below imply that almost half of Glas-gow’s residents - 286,000 people - reside in the 20% of most deprived areas in Scotland. In contrast, just 20,600 people (3.5% of the population) live in the 10% of least deprived areas in Scotland (based on 2012 population estimates and 33% of all children in the city (over 36,000 children) were estimated to be living in poverty in …show more content…
Furthermore, 12% of young adults aged 16-19 years old in Glasgow were not in employment, education or training in 2011. (understanding Glasgow,2009). There is another connection between education and various health risk factors. Studies show educated people have healthier behaviours and Those who had been studying in more years of schooling are less likely to smoke, to drink heavily, to be overweight or obese, or to use illegal drugs. This conveys that these kind of people have enough knowledge about advantages or disadvantage of using these factors. As much as they are aware, they will take more care of themselves and they are more serious about it (NBER,
The most …show more content…
Dep-rivation and poverty have a direct connection together, when there is deprivation in a community, for sure there will be poverty in there. Glasgow has identified as the most de-prived city in Scotland. As some statistics on diagram below imply that almost half of Glas-gow’s residents - 286,000 people - reside in the 20% of most deprived areas in Scotland. In contrast, just 20,600 people (3.5% of the population) live in the 10% of least deprived areas in Scotland (based on 2012 population estimates and 33% of all children in the city (over 36,000 children) were estimated to be living in poverty in …show more content…
Furthermore, 12% of young adults aged 16-19 years old in Glasgow were not in employment, education or training in 2011. (understanding Glasgow,2009). There is another connection between education and various health risk factors. Studies show educated people have healthier behaviours and Those who had been studying in more years of schooling are less likely to smoke, to drink heavily, to be overweight or obese, or to use illegal drugs. This conveys that these kind of people have enough knowledge about advantages or disadvantage of using these factors. As much as they are aware, they will take more care of themselves and they are more serious about it (NBER,