Wider Determinants of Health: October 2019 update
This update to the wider determinants profile contains: An update of 14 existing indicators to add new data: affordability of home ownership; average weekly earnings; gender pay gap; individuals not reaching the minimum income standard; job density; economic inactivity rate; unemployment; long-term claimants of Jobseeker’s Allowance; 19-24 year olds not in education, employment or training; workplace injury; workplace illness; access to healthy assets and hazards index; air pollution, and children in the youth justice system. New data for 5 indicators already released in other Fingertips profiles. The profile is designed to draw attention to the broad range of individual, social and environmental factors which influence our health and provide the public health system with intelligence on the wider determinants of health to help improve population health and reduce health inequalities.