Clackmannanshire Council Online

Health across Clackmannanshire

Health across Clackmannanshire

This section explores various health related statistics in Clackmannanshire. The information used on this page was obtained from:

• Information Services Division (ISD)
• Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO)

Useful reference documents

• Clackmannanshire & Stirling Health & Social Care Partnership
  • Strategic Plan and Partnership Priorities including Locality Profiles
• Clackmannanshire Health and Wellbeing profiles - key indicators and overview produced by ScotPHO

Alcohol and Drug misuse

Detailed alcohol and drug statistics can be found via the following links:

• ScotPHO profiles database
• ISD
  • Drug and Alcohol Misuse publications
  • Drug Related Hospital statistics dashboard
  • Scottish Drug Misuse database

Smoking

The most recent findings estimate 8,485 adult smokers in Clackmannanshire, 547 or 6.4% of whom attempted to quit smoking in 2016/17. The NHS reported a 47.6% success rate (quit after 1 month) in smoking cessation in Clackmannanshire for 2017/18 - higher than the 38.4% in Scotland as a whole.

Body Mass Index (BMI) in Primary 1

Percentage of children in primary 1 receiving a review whose BMI falls within the following epidemiological categories:

• At risk of underweight (BMI<=2nd centile)
• Healthy weight (BMI>2nd and <85th centile)
• At risk of overweight (BMI>=85th and <95th centile)
• At risk of obesity (BMI>=95th)
• At risk of overweight and obesity combined (BMI>=85th centile)

Epidemiological BMI distribution, Clackmannanshire

BMI category	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17
Healthy weight	80.3% (77.5%)	72.6% (76.4%)	78.4% (77.1%)	74.7 (76.8)	73.6 (76.1
@ risk of overweight	11.9% (12.0%)	16.5% (12.4%)	11.1% (12%)	13.4 (12.2)	13.1 (12.4)
@ risk of obesity	7.2% (9.3%)	10.3% (10.1%)	10.1% (9.8%)	10.4 (9.9)	12.7 (10.5)
@ risk of overweight & obesity	19.1% (21.3%)	26.8% (22.6%)	21.2% (21.8%)	23.8 (22.1)	25.8 (22.9)

Scottish average values are shown in brackets

Breastfeeding

Clackmannanshire has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding (at the first visit) in Scotland.

Breastfeeding

	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2017/18
% breastfed (mixed breast and formula fed)	30.0 (47.1)	31.6 (48.4)	33 (48.3)	31.5 (49.3)	33.8 (51.3)
% exclusively breastfed	23.3 (35.2)	23.3 (35.4)	26 (35.2)	25.3 (35.6)	24.8 (36.4)

Scottish average values are shown in brackets

Teenage pregnancies

Teenage pregnancies (aged <16)

Year	Clackmannanshire	Scotland
2010/12	27 (9.8)	1,602 (6.1)
2011/13	31 (11.5)	1,382 (5.3)
2012/14	29 (11.1)	1,242 (4.9)
2013/15	18 (6.9)	994 (4.0)
2014/16	13 (5.1)	839 (3.5)

Includes all pregnancies in women aged under 16. The rate is calculated using the female population aged 13-15. (*) show rates per 1000 women.

Teenage pregnancies (aged <18)

Year	Clackmannanshire	Scotland
2010/12	123 (42.2)	8,498 (31.1)
2011/13	120 (42.4)	7,421 (27.5)
2012/14	108 (39.5)	6,637 (24.9)
2013/15	91 (34.2)	5,838 (22.3)
2014/16	76 (28.9)	5,228 (20.4)

Includes all pregnancies in women aged under 18. The rate is calculated using the female population aged 15-17. (*) show rates per 1000 women.

Numbers and rates are shown as three year rolling aggregates, i.e. number is the addition of the values for each of the individual three year and the denominator used to calculate the rates is the addition of the populations for each of the three years.