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The profiles use key health indicators to capture a picture of the nation's health down to local level, providing areas across England with valuable information to improve their population's health. This year's data also includes new information on child health inequalities.

People in England can expect to live longer and healthier lives, but the health gap between the most affluent and most deprived wards within each local authority remains unacceptable.

Key national findings show that:

• Deaths from smoking-related diseases continue to fall across England. The death rate from smoking in the local authority with the lowest rate (139 per 100,000 in East Dorset) is less than half that in the local authority with the highest death rate from smoking (355 per 100,000 in Knowsley)
• Life expectancy from birth continues to improve across England for both men and women, but there is still a wide variation across the country. Men in the local authority with the highest life expectancy (Kensington and Chelsea, 83.1 years) can expect to live 10 years longer than those in the local authority with the lowest life expectancy (Manchester, 73 years).
• Women in the local authority with the highest life expectancy (Kensington and Chelsea, 87.2 years) can expect to live 9 years longer than those in the local authority with the lowest life expectancy (Liverpool, 78.3 years).

Several indicators of children's health presented in this year's data for the first time show that:

• Breastfeeding rates are at a national average of 69%:
• High quality PE and school sport amongst 5-16 year olds for at least two hours per week reached 86%:
• Obesity amongst reception year children averaged just under 10%:

These profiles are intended to give the NHS, local authorities and other partners an insight into the health of their residents, to enable resources and initiatives to be better targeted

Further information

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