Residents on the Cambridge Road estates are suffering an inequality in health compared with more affluent areas in Kingston, according to a social innovation study.
As a result, Health Launchpad at the Young Foundation is working with NHS Kingston on an initiative exploring future healthy living initiatives for the estate.
Bold graphics and graffiti murals were put up around the estate on Monday in a social rejuvenation exercise.
A Young Foundation spokesman said: “These pockets have evolved in part through the lack of social housing resulting in deprived communities being squeezed into bounded zones, resulting in stark disparities in life expectancy.”
On the Cambridge Road estate there is a 5.7 year difference in life expectancy compared with men living in the more affluent Tudor ward.
Other markers, including premature death, mental health and self-reported measures of health, all paint a picture of marked health inequality in the borough.
Almost a quarter of the Cambridge Road estate are children aged under 16 and according to this year’s Child Well-being Index, they are in the top 2 per cent for deprivation, based on material well-being, and the top 3 per cent most deprived in regards to housing need.
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