Health
The Health and wellbeing of London residents are essential to enable the demonstration of positive social, economic and health outcomes
Life Expectancies
It has been increasingly concerning that life expectancies across London boroughs are displaying wide disparities amongst women and men with the average women in Newham expected to live to 80 in sharp contrast to Kensington&Chelsea whereby a woman expects to live 9 years longer.
Child Health
London demonstrates one of the highest relative prevalence rates of obesity amongst children and young people with reports suggesting that the worst affected regions are in Southwark and Tower Hamlets with approximately 1 in 3 children being obese. These figures are related to the high inactivity levels present in these boroughs for example data implies that 27% of pupils who live a radius of 7 minutes walking distance from school opt not to walk to school.
Immunisation coverage
24 out of 32 London boroughs are classified as having childhood immunisation rates of primary vaccinations below the WHO global target of 95% demonstrating low immunisation coverage rates in certain parts of London
Education
Educational attainment is an invaluable tool for considering trends and disparities in income, poverty and social mobility rates across London
Almost 14% of Tower Hamlet's working population does not possess any qualifications
Almost 80% of GCSE Pupils passed with strong grades in Kingston Upon Thames compared to the 58% attaining strong passes in Lewisham
In 2018 Only 9% of children in Barking and Dagenham achieved their expected KS2 standard for English and Maths
Only 50% of Lewisham students get accepted into a HE Institution in stark contrast to 80% of Newham students
8% of students in Barking get accepted into a Russell University (incl Oxf&Camb) whereas a student in Kensingtonis 5 times more likely to be accepted