Lifestyle

• Lifestyle Choices 1 - For example, over 7000 adults in the UK cannot work because they are registered as obese - the cost to the taxpayer is £30 million a year in welfare payments.
• Lifestyle Choices 2

  • For example, daily alcohol consumption in Scotland for both men and women is 25% higher than in England.
• Geographical Divide 1 - For example, in Scotland, life expectancy at birth for 2019-2021 was 76.6 years for males and 80.8 years for females, compared to 78.6 years for males and 82.6 years for females in England and Wales in 2020. Scottish life expectancy is stalling and is now the lowest in Western Europe.
• Geographical Divide 2

  • For example, health expenditure is £200 higher per person in Scotland, yet Scots suffer the worst physical health in the UK.
• Gender 1 - For example, statistics published in 2022 by the National Records of Scotland display that the average life expectancy at birth is now 76.6 years for males and 80.8 years for females.
• Gender 2

  For example, women are almost twice as likely as men to have had depression. This is 10.4% for women and 5.5% for men. Every day, women face many different stressors in both their personal and professional lives. Whereas men are more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer or heart disease and have higher rates of accidental death and suicide than females.
• Ethnicity 1 - For example, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are five times more vulnerable to Type 1 Diabetes than the white population.
• Ethnicity 2

  • For example, Cancer Research UK data illustrates that on average, cancers in both white men and black men is 0.4%.