The JSNA for Lincolnshire is currently being reviewed and updated.

Live Well is all about our working age population in Lincolnshire.

This period spans from young adulthood when people generally have good health, through to early older adulthood when people often develop more health challenges. Across these ages, a variety of things impact on health and wellbeing, such as health behaviours, health conditions or disabilities, and wider determinants of health.

The information below summarises some of the key data and issues relating to adults in Lincolnshire. More detailed information about specific topics can be found using the buttons to the right.

Key points

1. Mental health, physical activity, housing, and healthy weight are priorities: These areas are central to Lincolnshire’s Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy, reflecting their impact on quality of life and long-term system costs. 
2. Transition points offer prevention opportunities: Life changes such as starting work, becoming a parent, or migrating often shape health behaviours, social support, and wellbeing.  
3. Deprivation drives health outcomes: Marmot Curve analysis shows life expectancy and healthy life expectancy fall sharply with deprivation, highlighting the link between inequality and poor health.  
4. Working-age health is poorer in deprived communities: Many adults live with disabilities or poor health, particularly in deprived areas, compounded by gaps in education, housing, and social support.  
5. Top disease burdens are preventable and lifestyle-related: Leading causes of disability-adjusted life years include heart disease, COPD, lung cancer, stroke, and low back pain; driven by risk factors such as smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high cholesterol. 
6. Unhealthy behaviours cluster due to wider determinants: Social, environmental, cultural, and personal factors influence health behaviours, which often occur together.  
7. Clinical care accounts for only 20% of health outcomes: Wider determinants such as housing, employment, and education play a much larger role, reinforcing the need for Population Health Management strategies.  
8. Digital inclusion is essential for population health: Lincolnshire’s Health & Care Digital Inclusion Strategy (2025–28) aims to close the digital divide, enabling access to self-help tools and digital-enabled services, especially in rural and deprived areas. 
9. Care closer to home: Access to hospital-based care can be challenging in large rural and coastal areas. Population Health Management tools, shared intelligence, and strengthened community health services enable localised prevention and treatment, reducing travel burdens and improving equity for residents in remote and deprived communities. 
10. Working-age health and employment: Poor health and disability among Lincolnshire’s working-age population, especially in deprived areas, reduce productivity and increase reliance on social support. Targeted workplace health initiatives, skills development and local services can help improve wellbeing and economic participation.