Longer Lives - premature mortality data

The Longer Lives interactive atlas

The Longer Lives project from Public Health England makes mortality data available to everyone.

Currently the site focuses on the four most common causes of mortality in England – heart disease and stroke, lung disease, liver disease, and cancer.

The site enables the comparison of premature mortality data  between all local authority areas, but also between areas of a similar size and make up. The project is at an early stage and more data will follow, including data for county districts.

Longer Lives highlights inequalities in premature mortality across the country. It also aims to provide examples of interventions that have been effective at the local level in reducing premature mortality rates. Currently there is information on cancer, heart disease, liver disease, and lung disease with more to follow.

Northamptonshire currently ranks as worse than the national average (72 out of 150), but the picture is more mixed than the figures suggest, with heart and liver disease and stroke actually better than the national average, but cancer and lung disease worse.