People in deprived areas of South Yorkshire lived shorter lives, according to a report.
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), men and women in poor areas of South Yorkshire will live on average 19 years more in ill health than those in the least deprived areas.
According to research by the Sheffield Star, the most deprived areas in Sheffield are: Sharrow, Heeley and Newfield Green, and Burngreave and Grimesthorpe.
Oliver Coppard, Mayor of the South Yorkshire Combined Authority, said: “I am determined to tackle health inequalities in South Yorkshire.
“We know that a baby born today in Rotherham will, on average, die five years earlier than a baby born on the same day in the London Borough of Richmond.
“That is a personal tragedy and a national travesty.”
Life expectancy in South Yorkshire is 77.3 years for men and 80.9 for women.
This is lower than the 83 years average for women in England, and 78.6 for men.
In his foreword to the report, Gavin Boyle, chief executive officer of the NHS board, said these differences as unfair and avoidable.
Mr Boyle said: “They are not inevitable and they are preventable”.
To raise the life expectancy, the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University have teamed up to create a new digital health hub.
The South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub aims to create and innovate health technologies and digital health tools to integrate data from daily life activities with NHS data.
Tim Chico, Director of the hub, said: “Accurate and early diagnosis is crucial for the prevention and treatment of disease.
“Digital data collected by technologies in our daily lives, such as the number of steps we walk, or the number of hours we sleep, is an unused source of information.”
The LDRS report said more people are suffering ill health through multiple conditions, as much as 15 years earlier in more deprived areas.
It suggested four key challenges to improving services: improving ambulance response times, eliminating 65-week waits for procedures, and improving access to mental health support for young people.
The biggest underlying causes of deaths were heart disease, Covid-19, dementia, lung cancer, stroke and lower respiratory disease.
The report will be discussed later at a meeting of Sheffield City Council’s South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire joint health overview and scrutiny committee.