Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2002: Chapter 1: The Geography of the West Midlands

Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2002

CHAPTER ONE: WEST MIDLANDS GEOGRAPHY

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1: The Geography of the West Midlands

2: Life Expectancy and Inequalities

4: Chemical incidents in the West Midlands

11: National Health Service Priority Areas

1.1. Introduction

Across the West Midlands region there are 30 Primary Care Trusts (PCT) and 3 Strategic Health Authorities (SHA). The membership of these areas is described in Figure 1.1 and Table 1.1. To relate the health geography to that of local government Figure 1.2 and Table 1.2 describe the location of local authorities in the SHA framework.

	Figure 1.1. Primary care trust and strategic health authority boundaries, as at 1st April 2002.

	Figure 1.2. Local Authorities of the West Midlands, as at 1st April 2002.

1.2. Population of the West Midlands

Using the figures from the 2001 Census updated populations for local authorities and strategic health authorities have been produced. Populations for PCTs will follow in the near future from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

Here we report the population of the region, SHAs and local authorities by gender (Table1.3) and pyramids for the West Midlands region and the SHAs (Figs 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6).

	Table 1.3. Population of the West Midlands by gender for region, SHAs and local authorities

	Figure 1.3. Population pyramid for West Midlands region

	Figure 1.4. Population pyramid for Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA

	Figure 1.5. Population pyramid for Birmingham and Black Country SHA

	Figure 1.6. Population pyramid for West Midlands South SHA