SCPHRP’s Active Travel magazine. Inside ‘How do we encourage more active travel in Edinburgh & the Lothians’. A workshop report by Dr Mhairi Aitken, Dr Ruth Jepson & Dr Andrew J Williams. Facilitating Active Travel for the people with visual impairment The Bike Station And much much more. Aug 19, …
SCPHRP’s Working Age/Adult Life Research Fellow, Tony Robertson, will be leading a Twitter chat between 2 and 3pm (UK time) on Thursday 6th August as part of the Society for Science Medicine’s monthly series of social media interactions. This month’s topic is on ‘The Realities of #ResearchImpact’. You can follow and contribute …
NHS Health Scotland has just released the first in a series of regular briefings providing evidence-informed recommendations for tackling the inequalities in our society and their impact on people’s health. The first briefing ‘Health Inequalities: What are they? How can they be reduced?’ explains what health inequalities are, and the action required to …
A new research article from the SCPHRP team, led by Prof. John Frank, has explored the evidence supporting seven potential societal investments (aimed at different stages of the lifecourse) that could help improve health and reduce health inequalities. The research team used hard-to-find comparable analyses of routinely collected data to gauge the relative extent to which …
This is a visual and written summary of an Open Space event on Health Inequalities that took place on 31st March 2015 at The Melting Pot in Edinburgh. The event was organised and facilitated by the Working Age/Adult Life Working Group of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and …
Inside… Evaluating Edinburgh’s first outdoor gym in Wester Hailes SCPHRP meets Professor Richard Wiseman And much more. Mar 27, 2015
Partly funded by SCPHRP through the project ‘Youth Tobacco and Alcohol Environments in Scotland and the relationships with Risky Behaviours‘, the Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health (CRESH) and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Scotland have produced an infographic on some of the key statistics on smoking and health in Scotland. Mar …
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