Broken hearts in Northern Ireland

Yet another report , this time from Northern Ireland , that expose the link between poverty and bad health.

The most deprived in Northern Ireland are twice as likely to die from heart disease as the most affluent.
Dr Leslie Boydell, associate medical director for public health at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust said “If you are less well off than someone else and live in a very unequal society it does impact on you psychologically and it does have a physical effect including on your health in terms of heart disease or cancer.”

Information published by the trust today showed the most deprived fifth of areas are at least twice as likely to die from heart disease as those in the most affluent electoral wards.