Health in England

It was targeted at the Spearhead areas - the 20% of local authorities with the worst health and deprivation indicators.

The strategy was associated with a decline in geographical inequalities in life expectancy, reversing a trend which had increased over a long period.

On average, there have been reductions in the number of years lived in poorer states of health for both men and women at age 65 in England.

[6] People in the most deprived areas are more than twice as likely to die prematurely from cancer, and there has been no significant change in this level of inequality since 2010 to 2012.

A study by Public Health England in 2017 found that 41% of the 15.3 million English adults aged 40 to 60 do not walk for as much as 10 minutes continuously each month at a brisk pace.