Chapter

Title

Title Page

Contact Details

Preface

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

1

The Geography of the West Midlands

1.1

Introduction

1.2

Population of West Midlands

2

Life Expectancy and Inequalities

2.1

Introduction

2.2

Life expectancy

2.3

Inequalities

3

Drinking Water Quality

3.1

Introduction

3.2

Water quality

3.2.1

Lead

3.2.2

Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons

3.3

General quality assessment of rivers

4

Chemical incidents in the West Midlands

5

Landfill Sites

6

IPPC

7

Fires in the West Midlands

7.1

Introduction

7.2

Types of fire

7.3

Demography of victims of fire

7.4

Injuries and deaths

7.5

Location of fires

8

Road Traffic Accidents

8.1

Introduction

8.2

Geographic al variation in road traffic accident rates

8.3

Demographic variation in road traffic accidents

8.4

Police reported incidents

9

Drownings

9.1

Introduction

9.2

Temporal trends

9.3

Demography

9.4

Location of drowning

9.5

Activity prior to drowning

10

Access to a healthy diet

11

National Health Service Targets

11.1

Introduction

11.2

Coronary Heart Disease

11.3

Cancer

11.4

Suicide and undetermined deaths

11.5

Heart Failure

11.6

Emergency admissions

11.7

Re - admissions

12

Communicable Disease

12.1

Introduction

12.2

Health care associated infection and antimicrobial resistance

12.3

Tuberculosis

12.4

HIV/AIDS

12.5

Measles Mumps and Rubella

13

Older People

13.1

Introduction

13.1.1

Demography

13.1.2

Dependency Ratios

13.2

Morbidity and mortality in the older population

13.2.1

Stroke

13.2.2

Admissions and deaths from injuries amongst older people

13.2.3

Coronary Heart Disease

13.2.4

Diseases of the Nervous System

13.2.5

Deliberate Self Harm

13.3

Performance Assessment Framework

13.4

Influenza

Annexe

Contents of Key Health Data 1999 to 2002