Health
Air Pollution and Inequality in Scotland
Author / Creator: Allison Catalano
Date published: 2025
Scotland has a long history of health inequality, and notable inequalities in air pollutant exposure.
Exploring the Health Impacts of Austerity
Author / Creator: Fiona McHardy
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Policymakers need to recognise the real human cost of austerity.
Population Health Framework
Author / Creator: Scottish Health Equity Research Unit
Media type: Consultation response
Date published: 2025
Why a new Population Health Framework, to be accompanied by concrete cross government actions, clearer implementation plans and a monitoring and evaluation framework is needed.
Raising the roof: can Scotland’s Housing to 2040 Strategy help as an approach to reduce health inequalities?
Author / Creator: Emma Congreve
Media type: Briefing Paper
Date published: 2025
Scotland can more effectively tackle health inequalities, by acknowledging and responding to key social determinants, such as housing
Inequality Landscape Health and Socio-economic Inequality in Scotland in 2025
Author / Creator: Allison Catalano
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
There is persistent, and in places deepening, structural inequalities that continue to drive poor health that is concealed by averages.
Although overall, this report suggests there have been modest gains in some living-standards, including some hopeful signs of reductions in child poverty.
Review of Abortion Law in Scotland Expert Group: report
Author / Creator: Expert Group to review the law on abortion in Scotland
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
The proposed alterations to the legality of abortion.
Economic inactivity and ill health in Scotland
Author / Creator: Hannah Randolph
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
Unemployment and ill health are related.
Spotlight on Research: Two new studies on the health impacts of cash transfers
Author / Creator: Katherine Smith
Media type: Research review
Date published: 2024
Does a universal basic income improve health of the poorest?
2024 Inequality Landscape: Health and Socioeconomic Divides in Scotland
Author / Creator: Allison Catalano
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
Many in Scotland’s most disadvantaged communities are being left behind.
Scotland’s Census: Understanding changes in health and socioeconomic inequality since 2011
Author / Creator: Allison Catalano
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
The Scotland of 2022 continues to be characterised by inequities in health outcomes, with life expectancies in the wealthiest parts of the country exceeding those in the poorest by more than a decade.
Consumption Rooms: Enabling or Preventing?
Author / Creator: Anthony Heron
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
The UK’s first consumption room for illegal drugs was announced in September of this year; but is it a good idea?
Socioeconomic and health inequalities in Scotland – Election Brief
Author / Creator: Fraser of Allander Institute
Media type: Report
Date published:
This topic brief provides an overview of some of the issues to consider ahead of the General Election 2024 that are relevant to tackling socioeconomic and related health inequalities in Scotland.
This is part of a programme of work, funded by the Health Foundation as part of its improving health and reducing inequalities in Scotland programme.
A Scotland where everybody thrives: Public Health Scotland’s strategic plan 2022 to 2025
Author / Creator: Public Health Scotland
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Specifically, we want to see life expectancy in Scotland start to improve again. We
want to see the difference in life expectancy between the poorest and wealthiest
areas get smaller
NHS in Scotland 2023
Author / Creator: Auditor General
Media type: Report
Date published:
The Scottish Government needs to develop a clear national strategy for health and social care to address the pressures on services.
Scotland's Covid Reckoning Part 2: Grace Blakeley
Author / Creator: Grace Blakeley
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2024
The economics of lockdown, global trade and lockdown regimes.
Scotland's Covid Reckoning: 1 - Neil Findlay
Author / Creator: Neil Findlay
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2024
Review of Covid pandemic response by the Scottish government
Climate change and the link to microorganisms
Author / Creator: Lynne Copland
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
The drip of melting Arctic permafrost is now a stream and releasing ancient microorganisms that could make Covid a side-show. Is it too late?
Education matters – our kids' mental health
Author / Creator: Charlie McCarthy
Date published: 2024
Absenteeism in school is a consequence of our kid's mental health. In this article, the author explains how this can be overcome.
Scottish Health Survey, 2022
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
Most public health measures show a decrease in health from 2021, except alcohol and smoking.
Suicide prevention strategy and action plan: consultation analysis
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2023
Scotland's suicide prevention strategy and action plan.