Standing view · health · Maldon
deteriorating, held with established confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2025.
Health measures in Maldon have been worsening, on a series that keeps reversing. Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 was 266.8 in 2023 and recorded as favourable against the usual pattern for its year, then 315.54 in 2024 and unfavourable, then 255.37 in 2025 and favourable again. That single measure is the whole of this evidence: three readings, two reversals, and the most recent one favourable. The view rests on the 2024 movement being the larger, which is why it is held as established rather than strong and why the next release matters.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Maldon. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2023 | improving |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2024 | deteriorating |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2025 | improving |