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What is Health Challenge Caerphilly?

Health Challenge Caerphilly county borough (Health Challenge Caerphilly CB) was launched in July 2008 to promote the health and wellbeing of the people of the county borough. It is the local response to Health Challenge Wales, which laid down the challenge to everyone in Wales to make small and inexpensive changes to your daily routine to lead healthier lifestyles.

Health Challenge Caerphilly CB is a partnership between Caerphilly County Borough Council, the Caerphilly teaching Local Health Board, the local public health team and a number of voluntary and private sector organisations. We work together to encourage and support people to lead happy and healthy lives by providing information about local activities and services and links to the most up to date advice on a range of health related issues.

Health Challenge Caerphilly CB is not an organisation in itself, but any activity, which improves health and wellbeing in the county borough, is branded with the little yellow person!

In line with the Welsh Government document “Our Healthy Future” we have ten priority areas for action. These are:

• Reduce inequities in health
• Improve people’s mental well-being
• Improve health in the workplace
• Cut the levels of smoking
• Increase physical activity
• Reduce unhealthy eating
• Stop the growing harm from alcohol and drugs
• Cut the number of teenage pregnancies
• Cut the number of accidents and injuries
• Increase immunisation rates

Why Health Challenge Caerphilly County Borough?

We have some of the poorest levels of health and wellbeing in Wales:

• Premature death rates (under 75 years of age) remain significantly higher than the Wales average.
• Conception rates in under 18 year olds are higher than the average for Wales.
• 62% of adults can be categorised at overweight or obese. Caerphilly has one of the highest obesity rates in Wales.
• Two thirds of adults do not eat the recommended 5 a day of fruit and vegetables.
• Only 28% of adults are active enough to meet physical activity guidelines.
• 26% of adults smoke. This is higher than the Wales average.
• Consumption of alcohol is high and binge drinking in the young is of concern.
• Dental health for 5 year-olds is poor.
• There are high levels of economic inactivity accompanied by high levels of claiming benefits.
• 26.3% of adults have a limiting long term illness - the 5th highest proportion in Wales.
• 11% of adults report being treated for a mental illness compared to 9% for Wales as a whole.

For more information on the health profile of Caerphilly county Borough please click on the Needs Assessment 2010 link on the left of this page.