Healthy Hounslow But Richer Richmond
Todays Evening Standard shows a jogger in Richmond Park illustrating a new report ranking Richmond 2nd in the UK for “future health”. Delving into last years detailed report from CACI/TNS (this years not available) I found that the report concludes Hounslow is quite healthy but has some demographic risk of losing this in the future. I reproduce some statistics which use demographics and heath risk correlations for the conclusions. I compared Hounslow with Richmond, Elmbridge, Ealing and Hammersmith. The report has 3 Unhealthy categories (now, future, possible future) and 1 Healthy category and ranks boroughs 1 to 408. The Evening Standard considered the Unhealthy Future for its article. Unhealthy rank 1 is bad but Healthy rank 1 is good.1 Unhealthy Now : Hou 322, Rich 379, Elm 380, Eal 357, Ham 2862 Unhealthy Future: Hou 124, Rich 381, Elm 374, Eal 182, Hamm 523 Unhealthy Possible Hou 330,Rich 26, Elm 6, Eal 367, Hamm 4044 Healthy Hou 30,Rich 206, Elm 316, Eal 5, Hamm 7These categories/groups 1 to 4 are defined in more detail as:-1. high levels of serious illness and poor diet & consumption patterns2. high levels of severely unhealthy lifestyles likely to lead to serious illness3. generally healthy but with some potentially unhealthy lifestyle traits4. good health with few lifestyle issuesThe reason why Hounslow, Ealing and Hammersmith are so healthy is that we have so many metropolitan, young, affluent, health-conscious professionals. Richmond and Elmbridge lose out because of the high proportion of affluent professionals living there with high alcohol consumption and who like eating out.I focused on the areas of Hounslow’s demographics which make a difference in its rankings. These are subdivided in the 4 categories as:-2.4 Metropolitan, multi-ethnic, smokers and overweight3.4 Affluent professionals, high alcohol consumption, dining out3.5 Low income families with some smokers4.1 Mixed ethnic metropolitan areas with good health and diet4.2 Metropolitan, affluent, healthy professionals4.4 Towns and villages with average health and diet4.6 Affluent towns and villages with excellent health and diet2.4 Hou 5.7, Rich .7, Elm .8, Eal 6.0, Ham 10.6 %3.4 Hou 8.3, Rich 29.2, Elm 41.1, Eal 7.7, Ham 2.5 %3.5 Hou 7.8, Rich 2.3, Elm 3.2, Eal 5.8, Ham 6.7 %4.1 Hou 6.3, Rich 1.0, Elm 1.8, Eal 6.1, Ham 21.0 %4.2 Hou 13.7 Rich 2.2, Elm 6.2, Eal 14.9, Ham 24.9 %4.4 Hou 11.8,Rich 4.9, Elm 8.2, Eal 15.9, Ham 4.7 %4.6 Hou 16.7,Rich 13.2, Elm 9.9, Eal 17.2, Ham 3.0 %
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