Is Wales a healthy country

Answer 1

It depends upon whether you are talking of the North or the South.

North and Mid-Wales tends to be a lot healthier than the South, which was heavily exploited industrially and has left a lot of older people with industrial diseases from mining, steelmaking, chemical exposure and so on, as well as being at a higher risk of cancer. There remains a lot of former industrial wasteland that is polluted, which is also a factor.

The South Wales valleys, as well as certain towns such as Newport, are very poor and deprived areas, meaning that the diets of their residents tend towards cheap convenience foods that results in obesity, heart trouble and under-nourishment. There is also a heavy culture of smoking in these areas, which inevitably leads to smoking-related illnesses.