Edinburgh's most vulnerable people have a life expectancy of just 45

[weepiper]

2014, everyone.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...lnerable-have-life-expectancy-of-45-1-3292323

The one word which is missing so hard from this article it's like someone's cut it out with scissors is 'poverty', of course. Edinburgh has some very stark cheek-by-jowl divides.

 

[dessiato]

This is one of the things that strikes me about EDI. There's a lot of poverty there. Most of which is blatantly obvious, but seldom noticed, IYKWIM.

 

[weepiper]

It's a city which relies fairly heavily on tourism, so there's an image the council would like to preserve/project. It's not all that long since they used to do a sweep of the rough sleepers and send them all out to live at Nunraw Abbey in East Lothian for the month of the Festival.

 

[DotCommunist]

thats a five year drop on figures I read a few years back. And what? a score years away from pensionable age. It doesn't even meet the biblical standard of three score and ten

 

[weepiper]

To put things into perspective, the average life expectancy in the Cramond and Barnton areas of Edinburgh (£1m+ houses) is 84.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

2014, everyone.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...lnerable-have-life-expectancy-of-45-1-3292323

The one word which is missing so hard from this article it's like someone's cut it out with scissors is 'poverty', of course. Edinburgh has some very stark cheek-by-jowl divides.

Yes, it's amazing how much difference it makes being "vulnerable" makes. Clearly what we need is a “wide-ranging and transformational review” of the way Edinburgh inhabitants with “very complex needs”, because it's all so complicated.

Cunts.

 

[The39thStep]

Where I live there is there is a fifteen year gap in life expectancy between working class Brinnington and middle class Bramhall

 

[FridgeMagnet]

No such thing as class these days of course.

 

[weepiper]

Yes, it's amazing how much difference it makes being "vulnerable" makes. Clearly what we need is a “wide-ranging and transformational review” of the way Edinburgh inhabitants with “very complex needs”, because it's all so complicated.

Cunts.

An Edinburgh social worker pal of mine said about this on facebook

I once wrote a document with an NHS consultant about poverty, exclusion and everything mentioned here. It was the culmination of two years work. It went to a committee meeting and was "noted".

 

[The Boy]

Pretty fucking shocking, tbh.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

An Edinburgh social worker pal of mine said about this on facebook

I once wrote a document with an NHS consultant about poverty, exclusion and everything mentioned here. It was the culmination of two years work. It went to a committee meeting and was "noted".

I've heard Sir Harry Burns (Chief Medical Officer for Scotland) talk about this a couple of times. He's got stats about this out the wazoo, and for a civil servant who isn't supposed to be political, errr, let's just say he's no fan of the last thirty-odd years. If he can't make much headway then who can?

 

[equationgirl]

To put things into perspective, the average life expectancy in the Cramond and Barnton areas of Edinburgh (£1m+ houses) is 84.

Which are probably not actually that far from some of the areas where the life expectancy is 45.

Some of piece was written in an 'it's their fault for their lifestyle choices' way too.

 

[nogojones]

And 58 for men on the Gurnos estate, not just the most vulnerable:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/male-living-gurnos-youd-better-1852032

 

[The Boy]

Which are probably not actually that far from some of the areas where the life expectancy is 45.

Yup. Barnton just over the hill from where I am, Corstorphine over the hill in the other direction. Not the roughest of areas in West Edinburgh, never mind the greater metropolitan area, but I'd bet there is a fairly steep drop in life expectancy when compared those two areas.

 

[rover07]

If you take a sample of the people with the worst health problems then it's no surprise that they have a low life expectancy.

Don't get this?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Interesting piece on a similar subject. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/01/scotland-poverty-homeless-bellgrove-glasgow