News Search news Search Filter by topic Alcohol (1) Burden of disease (1) Community justice (1) Corporate (5) Dementia (1) Drugs (1) Health inequality (1) Identify effective actions (1) Income (1) Obesity (1) Place standard (4) Power (1) Smoking (3) Suicide (1) Young people (1) Showing 24 results E-cigarettes definitely less harmful than smoking 21 Sep 2017 Smoking Key stakeholders in tobacco and health in Scotland have agreed for the first time that using e-cigarettes is definitely less harmful than smoking tobacco. Based on the current... Annual Review 2017 14 Sep 2017 Corporate The NHS Health Scotland Non-Ministerial Annual Review meeting will take place from 09:30 to 12:30 on Friday 22 September at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Stree... Success for Scottish Government's tobacco strategy 31 Aug 2017 Smoking Media release The Scottish Government’s tobacco control strategy has had a positive impact over the past five years, the results of a review by NHS Health Scotland and the Uni... Working Collaboratively to Improve Health and Wellbeing in Community Justice 22 Aug 2017 Community justice Today we have published a new resource: ‘Reducing Offending, Reducing Inequalities’ (RORI) to highlight the relationship between inequality and offending. The report seeks to... New animation - Power as a health and social justice issue 16 Aug 2017 Power Whether we have the power to make healthy choices or to influence decision makers to create more green space, the amount of power we have over the decisions that affect us has... Suicide figures show narrowing of inequality gap 02 Aug 2017 Suicide New figures released today by ScotPHO confirm there were 728 deaths by suicide in Scotland in 2016, an increase of 56 deaths from the previous year. There remains an overall d... Obesity inequalities persist in Scotland 27 Jul 2017 Obesity Today we have published new information to show how levels of obesity in Scotland have changed over time. The new analysis: ‘Obesity in Scotland: A Persistent Inequality’ also... New analysis explains increase and inequality in drugs deaths 26 Jul 2017 Drugs Today sees the release of new analysis which shows that the risk of drug-related deaths increased in Scotland from the 1990s for those born between 1960 and 1980, especially w... New app to improve engagement on place and health 17 Jul 2017 Place standard An app for the Place Standard has been developed for the first time. It is now available to download for free for Android or Apple smartphones or tablets. The places and spac... Prisons to be smoke-free by 2018 17 Jul 2017 Smoking NHS Health Scotland welcomes today’s announcement by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) that it intends to make Scotland's prisons smoke free by the end of next year. Inmates a... First Previous 1 2 3 Next Last
