Health inequality
What do we know about the relationship between air pollution, health, and inequality in Glasgow?
Author / Creator: Allison Catalano
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
Glasgow has some of the worst air quality levels in Scotland
Decomposing Glasgow’s CO₂ Emissions: Key Insights
Author / Creator: Grant Allan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
If you’re interested in understanding more about Glasgow’s emissions, GEMINOA is the place to go.
Glasgow Data Catalogue 2025
Author / Creator: Chrissie Blair
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Data on environmental, energy, transport, economic, health, and inequality indicators relevant to the City of Glasgow
Glasgow Economic and Climate Review 2025
Author / Creator: Glasgow Environmental Monitoring of Indoor and Outdoor Air (GEMINOA)
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Indicators of emissions, air quality, energy, transport, economy, health and inequality in Glasgow.
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.
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.
The issue of poverty in older adults and the impacts for health and social care
Author / Creator: Gunurra Doe
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
Poverty in later life is the scourge of modern society
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.
Socioeconomic inequalities in air pollutant exposure in Glasgow
Author / Creator: Allison Catalano
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
Glasgow has the highest concentrations of NOX and small particulates, but the effects are not evenly distributed.
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.
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.
Health & Care: Finance, Workforce and Reform
Author / Creator: Jimmy Reid Foundation
Media type: Briefing Paper
Date published: 2024
As a recent study shows, privatisation is not the solution and leads to poorer outcomes. Funding is critical coupled with action on:
• Investment in digital health and care.
• A realistic workforce plan.
• Investment in social care.
• A focus on prevention and early public health interventions.
How stark are Scotland’s health inequalities?
Author / Creator: The Ferret
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
After consistently increasing over the last four decades overall life expectancy stalled in Scotland in 2013-15
Health Inequalities in Scotland: Trends in the socio-economic determinants of health in Scotland
Author / Creator: David Eiser
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Socioeconomic factors play a critical role in influencing health and health inequalities.