Scotland: Health
Scotland's population size is 5,295,403
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People with learning disabilities experience significant health inequalities compared with other people, and have inequalities in accessing health care and services. We found that people with learning disabilities have as many health conditions at age 20 and over, as the rest of the population aged 50 and over. The most commonly experienced heath conditions of people with learning disabilities differ from the rest of the population. We found that people with learning disabilities live 20 years less than other people, and the leading causes of deaths differ: some of these may be preventable. The causes of these inequalities are complex and multiple, and we need a better understanding to improve this.
The Scottish learning disabilities strategy, ‘The keys to life’ emphasises the need to address the major health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities. The keys to life implementation framework has "a healthy life" as one of its four priorities for 2015-2018.
Health status
| All people | ||||||
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| Health | Female | Male | Total | |||
| Very good | 1,401,965 | 51.4% | 1,376,516 | 53.6% | 2,778,481 | 52.5% |
| Good | 814,949 | 29.9% | 760,051 | 29.6% | 1,575,000 | 29.7% |
| Fair | 351,772 | 12.9% | 293,109 | 11.4% | 644,881 | 12.2% |
| Bad | 121,574 | 4.5% | 104,580 | 4.1% | 226,154 | 4.3% |
| Very bad | 37,699 | 1.4% | 33,188 | 1.3% | 70,887 | 1.3% |
| Total | 2,727,959 | 100.0% | 2,567,444 | 100.0% | 5,295,403 | 100.0% |
| All people | |||
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| Health | Female | Male | Total |
| Very good | 1,401,965 | 1,376,516 | 2,778,481 |
| Good | 814,949 | 760,051 | 1,575,000 |
| Fair | 351,772 | 293,109 | 644,881 |
| Bad | 121,574 | 104,580 | 226,154 |
| Very bad | 37,699 | 33,188 | 70,887 |
| Total | 2,727,959 | 2,567,444 | 5,295,403 |
| People with learning disabilities | ||||||
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| Health | Female | Male | Total | |||
| Very good | 1,555 | 13.9% | 2,454 | 16.2% | 4,009 | 15.2% |
| Good | 3,855 | 34.4% | 5,352 | 35.3% | 9,207 | 34.9% |
| Fair | 3,930 | 35.1% | 5,043 | 33.3% | 8,973 | 34.1% |
| Bad | 1,223 | 10.9% | 1,555 | 10.3% | 2,778 | 10.5% |
| Very bad | 637 | 5.7% | 745 | 4.9% | 1,382 | 5.2% |
| Total | 11,200 | 100.0% | 15,149 | 100.0% | 26,349 | 100.0% |
| People with learning disabilities | |||
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| Health | Female | Male | Total |
| Very good | 1,555 | 2,454 | 4,009 |
| Good | 3,855 | 5,352 | 9,207 |
| Fair | 3,930 | 5,043 | 8,973 |
| Bad | 1,223 | 1,555 | 2,778 |
| Very bad | 637 | 745 | 1,382 |
| Total | 11,200 | 15,149 | 26,349 |
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Summary information
15.2% of people with learning disabilities rate their health as very good, compared with 52.5% of all people
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Good/very good health ratings ranged from 41.4% to 61.8% for people with learning disabilities and from 77.7% to 87.0% for all people across local authorities
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21.7% of people with learning disabilities have additional mental health conditions compared with 4.3% of people without learning disabilities
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Good/very good health ratings for people with learning disabilities were lowest in Glasgow (41.4%) and highest in Moray (61.8%)
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21.7% of people with learning disabilities have autism compared with 0.5% of people without learning disabilities
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