PHINS Seminar - 29th September 2006
This year's PHINS (Public Health Information Network for Scotland) seminar took place in Glasgow on the morning of Friday 29th September 2006 at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Around 200 delegates attended.
Below are links to a selection of the talks presented at the seminar. Please note that most of the links are to PowerPoint presentations, some of which may take several minutes to download. If you have difficulties downloading any of the files, try right-clicking with your mouse on the link, select 'save target as..', and save the file to your computer's hard disk or network drive.
David Walsh provided a general update on health & well-being related information projects in Scotland
(3,700KB).
Bruce Whyte gave a presentation on inequalities in Glasgow & the west of Scotland (1,300KB). Note that this presentation was based on the 'Let Glasgow Flourish' report, published recently by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health.
David Webster presented his work on Male worklessness and the rise of the lone parent family 
(1,200 KB). Note that this link is not to the PowerPoint presentation, but to the more detailed paper on which the presentation was based.
Emily Postan gave a presentation on Investigating environmental justice in Scotland (485KB).
Pauline Craig discussed CHPs and Health Inequalities (800KB).
Marella O'Neil described work in North Ayrshire under the title of 'Working differently - making a difference' (380KB).
Finally - and in a change from the original programme - Steve Platt discussed 'Socioeconomic deprivation, social exclusion and suicide in Scotland: evidence and policy implications'. Unfortunately, as this work has not yet been published, the presentation is not available to download. However, a link to the published paper will be made available in time.
For more information on any of these talks, please contact the presenter directly.
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