The bigger picture

Covered widely in the press is the unhappy news that the UK population has the highest prevalence of obesity in the EU. And that within the UK, the West Midlands has highest levels, at 29% of the adult population. The figures come from an EU-wide database of health inequalities indicators, I2SARE, which has just published its 2006 data. Other areas where the UK is in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons are teenage pregnancies, infant mortality and female cancer care. UK leads for the project at NEPHO provide some analysis.