Recent praise in the media for the work of People, Words & Pictures – www.pwpcomms.co.uk – and some mapping work to illustrate health inequalities. While in the employ of Nottingham City Primary Care Trust, I mapped life expectancy in wards across the city to the various bus and tram journeys that spread out from the city centre. The data was placed on a map and showed the correlation between deprivation and poor health. And now the city’s local newspaper, the Nottingham Evening Post, has picked up on the city life expectancy maps – see www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Bus-maps-set-life-expectancy-gaps/article-356094-detail/article.html and their comment piece – www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Post-comment-City-end-inequalities-life-expectancy/article-357053-detail/article.html which states:
“A creative type at Nottingham City Primary Care Trust has had the bright idea of showing how life expectancies change dramatically along the course of bus and tram routes.
“It is an effective piece of communication, which could usefully be displayed more widely.
“It is important that city residents, particularly those who are at risk of dying younger, should know about these inequalities.
“Any solution to the problem may depend, in part, on those affected demanding a better deal. After all, it is not fair that a man in Bilborough dies ten years younger than a man in Wollaton, just a short ride away on the number 35.”
- A journey through health inequalities in Nottingham (male life expectancy)
