Health: Disadvantaged

(asked on 7th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the levels of socioeconomic inequalities in (a) lung cancer, (b) covid-19 and (c) respiratory health in general.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 14th September 2021

Public Health England (PHE) data shows that deprived groups are at greater risk of emergency presentation and late stage diagnosis for most cancers. People in deprived areas are more likely to be diagnosed and to have poor outcomes following COVID-19 diagnosis than those in less deprived areas.

PHE’s ‘Atlas of Variation in risk factors and healthcare for respiratory disease in England’ showed that morbidity and mortality due to respiratory disease are concentrated within deprived groups.

The new Office for Health Improvement and Disparities will systematically tackle the top preventable risk factors, improving the public’s health and narrowing health disparities.

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