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Creating Better Health & Wellbeing – Final Report & Video

This one-day networking and learning event was organised by members of the Adult Life/Working Age Working Group at SCPHRP. It aimed to help bring academic researchers and community organisations together to discuss methods and experiences of improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities in Scotland. The main objectives for …

SCPHRP Bulletin No 8

Take Five Minutes to read about recent developments at the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy (SCPHRP): News & Events If you would like to make suggestions regarding a SCPHRP event – including potential collaborations or speakers, would like to share articles and papers, or publicise your own …

SCPHRP Bulletin No 7

Take Five Minutes to read about recent developments at the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy (SCPHRP): News & Events If you would like to make suggestions regarding a SCPHRP event – including potential collaborations or speakers, would like to share articles and papers, or publicise your own …

Linking and Using Health & Social Data in Scotland: Charting a Way Forward

Integration of health and social care is the Scottish Government’s ambitious programme of reform to improve services for people who use health and social care services. This will require the integration of data sources to support effective work practices and evaluation both locally and nationally. Furthermore, there is increasing recognition inside and outside academia that integrated health and social care data are required to inform service delivery and policy in order to improve public health and wellbeing.
A number of groups around Scotland have started to link health and social care data for academic or analytical purposes.

A qualitative study of independent fast food vendors near secondary schools in disadvantaged Scottish neighbourhoods

Preventing and reducing childhood and adolescent obesity is a growing priority in many countries. Recent UK data suggest that children in more deprived areas have higher rates of obesity and poorer diet quality than those in less deprived areas.

Pros and Cons of Routinely Collected Health Outcomes for Monitoring Socio-Economic Disparities in Health: Lessons from Scotland

Video from The University of Michigan’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program symposium entitled Population Health: Past, Present, & Future.  John Frank’s talk “Pros and Cons of Routinely Collected Health Outcomes for Monitoring Socio-Economic Disparities in Health: Lessons from Scotland”  was presented during the session called What …

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