Healthy Lives

Healthy lives

In the Healthy Lives domain, we delve into the broader social factors affecting health outcomes in Derbyshire. This domain specifically focuses on factors that directly impact individuals. It encompasses four subdomains, each providing valuable insights into various aspects of health.

• Behavioural Risk Factors includes factors within an individual’s control that significantly influence their health.
• Children and Young People includes topics affecting children including early years development, school attendance and teenage pregnancy rates.
• Physiological Risk Factors encompasses physical or biological factors that affect an individual’s health.
• Protective Measures are the factors that can help protect individual’s against poor health and maintain good health.

This structured approach to understanding health factors helps inform policies and initiatives aimed at improving the wellbeing of individuals and communities across Derbyshire.