NHS digital has published the findings of 'The Health Survey for England 2018' highlighting the trends in health and care. For the 2018 survey, 8178 adults (age, ≥16 years) and 2072 children (age, 0-15 years) were interviewed and 4825 adults and 1103 children had a nurse visit.
Key findings from the report are as follows:
- Forty-three per cent of adults aged ≥16 years and 16 per cent of children aged up to 15 years had at least one longstanding clinical condition.
- Seventeen per cent of men and 18 per cent of women aged ≥16 years had ever been diagnosed with asthma.
- The proportion of children aged 0-15 years with diagnosed asthma was 10 per cent in 2018. This represents a reduction of 10 percentage points since 2001-2002.
- Fifty-six per cent of adults had an elevated risk of various degrees for chronic disease owing to their waist circumference and body mass index.
- The rates of obesity and morbid obesity in men were 26 per cent and two per cent, respectively, and in women were 29 per cent and four per cent, respectively.
- Twenty-seven per cent of adults were 'inactive' (<30 minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity per week).
- Some form of gambling activity during the past 12 months was practised by 39 per cent of adults.
- Nineteen per cent of men and 28 per cent of women aged ≥65 years reported an unmet need with at least one Activity of Daily Living.
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