PHINS Seminar - 7th September 2007

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This year's PHINS (Public Health Information Network for Scotland) seminar took place in Glasgow on the morning of Friday 7th September 2007 at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Around 150 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.

General update section

Bruce Whyte (Glasgow Centre for Population Health) and David Gordon (NHS Health Scotland) provided a general update on Health & well-being related information projects in Scotland (670 KB).

International comparisons section

Alison Burlison (ISD Scotland) gave a presentation on the Health for All Database(880 KB), looking at how Scotland compares to the UK and other European countries.

David Walsh (Glasgow Centre for Population Health) and Martin Taulbut (NHS Health Scotland) jointly presented interim findings from a project comparing mortality between Scotland (and, specifically, the West of Scotland) and other relevant European regions. Note that as the material has not yet been published, the presentation will be made available at a later date.

Linsay Gray (MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow) gave a presentation on Comparisons of health-related behaviours and health outcomes in Glasgow with other regional areas in Europe (1.2 MB).

New insights into inequalities section

Peter Kelly (Poverty Alliance) gave an overview of Poverty in Scotland(130KB).

Diane Stockton (ISD Scotland) discussed Inequalities in rural health in Scotland (1.7 MB).

Rosalia Munoz-Arroyo (ISD Scotland) presented work on Measuring health inequalities at a national and local level(1.1 MB) 

Finally, Alastair Leyland (MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow) gave an overview of Inequalities in mortality in Scotland 1981-2001(5.1 MB). Note that the full report from which the presentation is based can be downloaded from http://www.inequalitiesinhealth.com/.   

For more information on any of these talks, please contact the presenter directly.

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