Life expectancy

The husband of a friend of mine is an ex adviser to the Fed, and the WTO and various other major financial organisations. We were chatting one day, and whilst doing some research for the bank of England came across this stat, he knew I was from Blackpool so the stat piqued his interest, he found it difficult to believe how a country of the size of the UK could have a thirteen year difference in life expectancy, I had to clue him in on why this should be expected in Britain today.
 
There are a couple of areas in central and south Blackpool where on average men don’t live long enough to receive their state pension .
 
Yet years ago my mother-in-law God bless her, was advised to move here because it's a healthier area with the sea air as opposed to smoke filled Oldham where she's from.

Luckily she took the doctors advice otherwise I'd never had met Mrs Raging. 🤔
 
Costero Poderoso said:
The husband of a friend of mine is an ex adviser to the Fed, and the WTO and various other major financial organisations. We were chatting one day, and whilst doing some research for the bank of England came across this stat, he knew I was from Blackpool so the stat piqued his interest, he found it difficult to believe how a country of the size of the UK could have a thirteen year difference in life expectancy, I had to clue him in on why this should be expected in Britain today.
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Fairly sure they see much the same in the US, and elsewhere.
 
Raging_Bull said:
Yet years ago my mother-in-law God bless her, was advised to move here because it's a healthier area with the sea air as opposed to smoke filled Oldham where she's from.

Luckily she took the doctors advice otherwise I'd never had met Mrs Raging. 🤔
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We moved to Blackpool when I was little from Manchester because I was forever getting tonsillitis. Never had any bother since, 60 years later and still have my tonsils.
 
Lost Seasider said:
Fairly sure they see much the same in the US, and elsewhere.
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USA i think yes from state to state and obviously between wealthy and poor people, due to several factors including poverty, and particularly access to affordable healthcare. I don't think there is another industrialised country with a universal healthcare system with such a regional disparity,
 
Costero Poderoso said:
USA i think yes from state to state and obviously between wealthy and poor people, due to several factors including poverty, and particularly access to affordable healthcare. I don't think there is another industrialised country with a universal healthcare system with such a regional disparity,
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I suspect if you were to drill down to population centres the size of Blackpool you would find a similar story in other countries, how easy that information might be to come by I do not know.
 
Lost Seasider said:
I suspect if you were to drill down to population centres the size of Blackpool you would find a similar story in other countries, how easy that information might be to come by I do not know.
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Feel free to drill down and come back to us.

America, with their lack of healthcare, will be, but not the rest of Europe.

The differential had grown since 2010.
 
when i was 46 I was diagnosed with a blood disorder call;ed Hodgkins Lyphoma. IF it was one of the other blood diseases it WOUld have probably killed me. No doubt in my mind this would have happened. if you swap the numbers round i am my current age 64 this week. IT took seven years to be discharged from treatment. by then i had lost my job almost my home. ITS not the treatment as such but the side effects. I am grateful for every day i live . i absolutely think its sometimes luck of the draw. My wife who is 71 is the only one left out of three siblings. Both to cancer. but seeing some of the specimens that NEVER attempt to look after their own health does make me ill.
 
I'm not surprised to hear that there are areas in Brighton which despite the affluence of the town have a very low life expectancy particularly for males. The ever widening inequality and this monthling of the NHSin this country will be shown in health statistics as well
 
The central area has for a long time imported some dossers from the north of England and Scotland which has a huge impact on this. Not only does it lower Blackpools rate it raises up the areas they came from slightly.

Fortunately more people from Blackpool are staying put compared to the past as these people die off or move away, they can hopefully be replaced more with good local people.

Also knocking down of shite housing and building new will attract a better standard and provide opportunities forr locals kids to get housing etc.

It doesn't mean much for living in Blackpool, you can happily live a good and long life.

It all ties in with the improvements in the town too, better job prospects and again more new and decent housing so people don't have to leave.

But for the figures to be changed the hosuing must be within the Blackpool boundary, which is small and doesn't have loads of space left.

If people move just outside the boundary then even though they're still in Blackpool by address but they aren't counted, so the small boundary isn't helping in giving a bigger number to divide by.
 
Blackpool as been near the bottom of that particular lease table for some time, but it is as much about demography as anything else.

The discrepancy doesn't necessarily have anything to do with geography. Just before I retired we did some research on life expectancy levels within council areas, and the place with the biggest discrepancy between best and worst was the London Borough of Westminster.
 
So i moved to St Annes from nth blackpool eight months ago . Does that put years on my life expantacy. or is blackpool just one enormous great hea\lth disaster.
 
JOHNMAJORTOM said:
So i moved to St Annes from nth blackpool eight months ago . Does that put years on my life expantacy. or is blackpool just one enormous great hea\lth disaster.
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It's not that Blackpool kills you sooner,

it's that people who live in Blackpool are more likely to have their life shortened by drink, drugs, smoking, poor diet, poor housing and inadequate health care.
 
dodgy_surname said:
The Vic is definitely not inadequate
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Inadequate health care can be for lots of reasons, not just the standard of the local hospital.

Easy access to a GP, a culture of putting up with it/not complaining, lack of information of what to look for, missing appointments. Lots of things can result in a lack of healthcare.
 
Born & raised in Blackpool (proud of it).
However, I've probably lived 70%+ of my life outside of it.
Lived in Herts/Beds/Bucks for many years.
Now in P-le-Fylde.
P.S. Not forgetting 5 years in France.
 
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