Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Report

Healthissue/conditionProtectedcharacteristicBarts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment ReportLocal dataRegional/national/international dataAvailabilityAreascoveredYear Available YearWhat the evidence is sayingpeople with learning disabilities and people withschizophrenia have proportionally higher rates ofgastrointestinal cancer. Women withschizophrenia are 42% more likely to developbreast cancer.Percentage of Women Aged 53-64 Screened forBreast Cancer 2009/10:RaceNTHWF2009-102009-102009-10Yes 2002-6Newham PCT: 61.6% (out of 13,325 eligiblewomen);Tower Hamlets PCT: 67.3% (out of 8,300 eligiblewomen;Waltham Forest PCT: 70.8% (out of 13,895eligible women)Tower Hamlets – there is a weak correlationbetween lower male life expectancy and highercancer mortality in Bangladeshi residents. Peoplein most deprived areas and BME people hadlowest awareness of cancer symptoms andlifestyle risk factors.SexTHWFYes 2007-9Newham - The crude overall mortality rate due tocancers for Newham populations stands at about25% for both men and women, although for allpeople that die before the age of 75 in Newham,more women die from breast and lung cancers,while the leading cause of death for men arecardiovascular diseases.Tower Hamlets – Some ethnicity/ gender specificinformation on cancer awareness. For example,Low level of breast awareness, particularly Asianwomen; barriers to seeing a GP wereembarrassment and fear (more Asian women),137