Death rates inwards England as well as Wales increased past times 5.6% inwards 2015 compared to the previous year. The ONS is attributing this increment to rises inwards dementia as well as Alzheimer’s as well as a influenza virus which predominantly affected older people. However others convey argued that the UK's government's austerity programme has played a major purpose inwards the worsening overall wellness of the U.K. population.
The UK's Office for National Statistics has published an interactive Leaflet map which allows you lot to examine the age-standardised mortality charge per unit of measurement inwards each local say-so expanse inwards England & Wales for the years 2001-2015. The ASMRs past times Local Authority District map is a choropleth map which shows the mortality charge per unit of measurement inwards each local say-so expanse for each year.
If you lot conduct an expanse on the map you lot tin strength out persuasion a trouble graph inwards the map sidebar showing the mortality charge per unit of measurement inwards the expanse for 2001-2015.The North East of England has the highest ASMR as well as the South East has the lowest. As the ONS points out "higher levels of deprivation are acquaint inwards the N of England as well as ... increased mortality rates for many causes of croak convey long been associated alongside higher levels of deprivation".
Danny Dorling of Oxford University has gone a lilliputian farther than the ONS inwards straight attributing the rising croak rates inwards England as well as Wales inwards purpose to the Conservative government's Austerity policies. In Brexit: The Decision of a Divided Country Dorling claims that,
"Austerity had a major role, alongside people who had long term tending needs dying earlier. ... The underlying ground for worsening wellness as well as declining living standards was ... e'er growing economical inequality as well as Earth spending cuts that accompanied austerity".
