Last week's Milburn Review showed how disconnected young people are from education, employment & training in the UK. But what's the picture in Scotland? We found a slightly better picture of participation here, but his concerns nevertheless ring true. Read more here:

Our May edition of Prevention Watch is out! We look at preventative reports for the new parliament, DWP’s Right to Try policy, the price of drug-related deaths, investing in leisure & sport for wellbeing, + PHS’ report on monitoring health inequalities. scothealthequity.org/prevention-w...

We are pleased to share a new development in the SHERU Data at a Glance resource. scothealthequitydatadashboard.my.canva.site/homedash

Employability policy has the potential to play a significant role in reducing health inequalities. New SHERU analysis considers how Scotland's employability strategy, No One Left Behind, can best fulfil this potential. Read the report here: scothealthequity.org/assessing-sc...

With the Scottish election a week away, we looked at how preventative each party's policies might be. Spoiler: some messaging was better than others. View our analysis here: scothealthequity.org/the-scottish...

💻️ Recording of our latest webinar is now live 🗳️ Views on health policy and prevention: a look to the Scottish election Featuring Allison Catalano, Katherine Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social David Finch @healthfoundation.bsky.social and Fiona McHardy Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vYX...

Tackling child poverty agenda in Scotland is at a pivotal point, with any new administration facing challenging targets to reach by 2030; preventative approaches to policy are also gathering interest. Read our response to the tackling child poverty delivery plan scothealthequity.org/assessing-th...

Last month, we held a series of stakeholder engagement sessions to discuss our recent work on health inequalities and young adult men. Read our reflections here: scothealthequity.org/men-and-heal...

Our March edition of Prevention Watch is out: PHS’ new 10-Year Strategy & transport poverty review; Parenting Across Scotland’s report on access to hobbies for young people; work on young adult men and prevention; Scotland’s new Alcohol & Drug strategy. scothealthequity.org/prevention-w...

Earlier this year, SHERU consulted with researchers at SPICe to discuss the ongoing need for prevention-based policies and the need to implement prevention into budgeting activities. digitalpublications.parliament.scot/ResearchBrie...

Following the Scottish Government’s final child poverty delivery plan, new stats out yesterday show both relative and absolute child poverty fell by 1 percentage point in 2022-25 compared to 2021-24. Relative child poverty after housing costs was 21% and absolute poverty was 23%.

Last year, we worked with ScotCen to include 11 questions about health inequalities & prevention in the annual Scottish Social Attitudes survey. Crucially: 94% of the population thinks it’s important for the Scottish Government to reduce the health gap between rich & poor people.

🔷 New webinar 🔷 🗳️ Views on health policy and prevention: a look to the Scottish election 🕙️ Thursday April 23rd, 10-11am www.eventbrite.com/e/views-on-h...

A recording of our webinar "Refreshing the National Performance Framework" is now online. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGk... Featuring Mairi Spowage @fraserofallander.org Sarah Davidson @carnegieuk.bsky.social and Ali Hosie (Scottish Human Rights Commission).

We have a new article out today which lays out what we do and don’t know about No One Left Behind, Scotland’s strategic framework and funding stream for employability. scothealthequity.org/employabilit...

🔷New SHERU webinar🔷 ❤️‍🩹 Young adult men and the drivers of health inequalities www.eventbrite.com/e/young-adul...

Our latest report featured in @heraldscotland.bsky.social: Young Scottish men 'experiencing poverty at similar rates to children' www.heraldscotland.com/news/2584912...

New SHERU analysis highlights a concerning rise in poverty among young men in Scotland – a key group of interest from a health inequality perspective. scothealthequity.org/poverty-amon...

New SHERU webinar: 🔷Refreshing the National Performance Framework🔷 🕐️ Monday March 2nd, 1-2pm 🔗 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/refreshing...

New output from SHERU 🪙 📈 The impact of the pandemic on savings and debt: did the experience of Scotland differ from the rest of Great Britain? scothealthequity.org/the-impact-o...

The Scottish Government’s new suicide prevention plan, "Creating Hope Together: Scotland’s Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2026–2029", is now out: www.gov.scot/publications...

SHERU has published new analysis on poverty in Scotland, shedding light on the socio-economic drivers of health inequalities. How do poverty rates compare in Scotland and the rest of the UK, how have they changed over time, and what has driven those changes? scothealthequity.org/comparing-po...

Our January edition of Prevention Watch is out today. In this edition, we look at prevention in the Scottish and UK budgets, a report on health and employment, links between wealth inequality and suicide, and England’s new youth strategy. Check it out here: scothealthequity.org/prevention-w...

Sign up for the first of an exciting series from @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social in the run-up to the upcoming Scottish election, foreCASt: looking at key policy areas that must see change. This episode will cover public debt and financial security🪙📈 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forecast-p...

(1/5) New National Records of Scotland statistics show life expectancy in Scotland is now 81.06 for women and 77.12 for men. It has risen slightly since 2021–23, nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, but progress is modest and inequalities remain central.

⚕️ 2025 Inequality Landscape Report Launch 📝 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a45p... We suggest there have been modest gains in some living-standards, but this is set against persistent, and in places deepening, structural inequalities that continue to drive poor health.

Our October edition of Prevention Watch is out today. This month we look at budget process reforms, developments in housing policy, an evaluation of the Planet Youth pilot for Scotland, and a talk from the Auditor General at our annual report launch. Read more here:

🏛️ We're here at the parliament with @healthfoundation.bsky.social for the next few days, talking about our latest report on prevention deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide. Read the report here: scothealthequity.org/2025-inequal...

ICYCMI some insights from our panel discussion at the launch of the new SHERU report out today on how to prevent premature deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide amongst men in Scotland (a 🧵):

(1/3) At the launch of SHERU's report this morning, we were joined by the Auditor General Stephen Boyle to hear about the work of @auditscotland.bsky.social on how to best deliver on preventative policy in Scotland.

See coverage of today's report from SHERU on how younger adult men, at risk of deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide, are a 'policy blindspot': www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/policy-...

1/7 This morning we launched our 2025 Inequality Landscape report at the Fraser of Allander Institute 50th Anniversary conference #FAI50

Poll amongst participants on how to strengthen policy implementation as part of today's SHERU session

We're at the Fraser of Allander 50th conference today talking about our work on Strengthening Policy Implementation.

🏡 Our new report: what role can Scottish housing policy play in reducing health inequalities? See here: scothealthequity.org/raising-the-...

1/7 New stats from @NatRecordsScot show 1017 drug misuse deaths in Scotland in 2024. That’s down 13% from 2023 - the lowest level since 2017. A welcome shift but drug deaths remain far higher in Scotland than elsewhere in Europe & are deeply tied to poverty and inequality.

The recording of our latest webinar can now be watched here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Dj... Featuring contributions from @gjallan.bsky.social and Justine Holmes @shareaction.bsky.social

Reminder: We have a webinar on air pollution, socioeconomic inequality, and policy next Tuesday, 19 August, at 1pm! Sign up here:

Our latest edition of Prevention Watch, where we look at primary prevention as a means of reducing health inequalities, is out now.

Join us for our forthcoming webinar on Tuesday August 19th, looking at the intersection between inequalities and pollutant exposure in Scotland. Featuring contributions from @gjallan.bsky.social and Justine Holmes (@shareaction.bsky.social). Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/air-pollut...

New webinar recording: youtu.be/3pmpImXPeKk In this webinar, we spoke with experts on primary prevention models from Ireland and Iceland. We heard how these countries used policy & data to reduce suicides & drug & alcohol misuse, and how Scotland can learn from these models.

I have a new report out today looking at air quality in Scotland. Check out the thread here:

Our colleagues at @scothealtheq.bsky.social have a new report out today looking at how some groups in Scotland experience worse air quality, and where policy can address inequality. View the report here:

In the second blog in a series of work on our latest mortality trends research, David Jack, Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow at @scothealtheq.bsky.social ‬explores the data and implications for policymakers in Scotland. Read more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/3ThgDYZ

Responding to the release of Scotland's Population Health Framework, our colleagues @scothealtheq.bsky.social rightly highlight the need for a much clearer commitment to realising a whole of government approach to improving health and reducing inequalities ⬇️

The new Population Health Framework rightly backs prevention and whole-system work to cut health inequalities—but most actions stay within health policy, with fewer concrete x-government efforts on social determinants like housing. Read our response: scothealthequity.org/sheru-respon...

SHERU will be releasing its next annual report at the Fraser of Allander conference on September 18-19 in Glasgow. Sign up has gone live today! Come along to hear about the work of SHERU and our colleagues in the Fraser of Allander Institute. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

We're glad to see primary ill health prevention centred in today's Population Health Framework.

SHERU team member David Jack has written a piece for @healthfoundation.bsky.social‬ on the data and evidence on mortality trends in Scotland. Read more here: www.health.org.uk/features-and...

A lot of people will be considering the impacts of the Spending Review today. Our latest paper looks at the effects of previous governments' decisions on spending and delves into the impact of austerity on health inequalities in Scotland and the UK. A thread: