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Behaviour
Alcohol
Diet and nutrition
Drugs
Physical activity
- Physical activity: introduction
- Physical activity: key data sources
- Physical activity: key points
- Physical activity: policy context
- Physical activity: key references and evidence
- Physical activity: useful links
Data
- Physical activity: active living/commuting among adults
- Physical activity: adults comparison with England
- Physical activity: adults European comparison
- Physical activity: adult's time trend
- Physical activity: adults achieving the recommended level by age and gender
- Physical activity: children European comparison
- Physical activity: children achieving the recommended level by age and gender
- Physical activity: children's time trend
- Physical activity: data introduction
- Physical activity: adults achieving the recommended level by SIMD quintile
Sexual health
Tobacco use
- Tobacco use: introduction
- Tobacco use: key data sources
- Tobacco use: key points
- Tobacco use: policy context
- Tobacco use: key references and evidence
- Tobacco use: useful links
Data
- Tobacco use: adult smoking by community health partnership
- Tobacco use: adult comparison with England and Wales
- Tobacco use: adult European comparison
- Tobacco use: population target for adult smoking prevalence in Scotland
- Tobacco use: adult smoking by age group and gender
- Tobacco use: young people European comparison
- Tobacco use: young people smoking by age and gender
- Tobacco use: data introduction
- Tobacco use: environmental tobacco smoke
- Tobacco use: adult smoking by local authority
- tobacco la chart 2005/06
- Tobacco use: maternal smoking by age group
- Tobacco use: maternal smoking by SIMD quintile
- Tobacco use: maternal smoking by NHS board
- Tobacco use: population target for smoking among pregnant women
- Tobacco use: adult smoking by NHS board
- Tobacco use: adult smoking by SIMD quintile
Clinical risk factors
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Obesity
- Obesity: introduction
- Obesity: key data sources
- Obesity: key points
- Obesity: key references and evidence
- Obesity: policy context
- Obesity: risk factors
- Obesity: useful links
Data
- Obesity in adults
- Obesity prevalence in Scotland, by gender, 1995-2008
- Obesity: children's data
- Obesity: data introduction
- Obesity by deprivation
- Obesity: international data
- Obesity in OECD countries, percentage of females with a raised BMI
- Obesity: measurement
- Obesity: morbidity
- Obesity: mortality data
- Obesity: NHS boards
Health, wellbeing and disease
Allergic conditions
Asthma
Cancer
Breast cancer
Colorectal cancer
Lung cancer
CHD
Chronic liver disease
COPD
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): introduction
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): key data sources
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): key points
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): key references and evidence
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): policy context
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): risk factors
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): useful links
Data
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): coding considerations
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): data introduction
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): deprivation data
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): international data
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): mortality data
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): NHS board data
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): primary care data
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): secondary care data
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): smoking data
Diabetes
Disability
Hepatitis C
Immunisations
- Immunisations: introduction
- Immunisations: key data sources
- Immunisations: key points
- Immunisations: key references and evidence
- Immunisations: policy context
- Immunisations: useful links
Data
- Immunisations: deprivation
- Immunisations: diphtheria
- Immunisations: Hib
- Immunisations: HPV
- Immunisations: international comparisons
- Immunisations: men C
- Immunisations: mmr
- Immunisations: pertussis
- Immunisations: pneumococcal
- Immunisations: polio
- Immunisations: tetanus
- immunisations: vaccine preventable diseases
Infections
Injuries
Mental health
- Mental Health: key data sources
- Mental health: introduction
- Mental Health: key points
- Mental health: policy context
- Mental Health: key references and evidence
- Mental Health: useful links
Data
- Mental health: adults and mental health problems
- Mental health: autism
- Mental health: children and mental health problems
- Mental health: data introduction
- Mental health: dementia
- Mental health: depression and anxiety
- Mental health: Deprivation
- Mental health: international comparisons
- Mental health: postnatal depression and puerperal psychosis
- Mental health: prescriptions for for anxiety, anti-depression or psychosis
- Mental health: schizophrenia
- Mental health: suicide
- Mental health: vulnerable groups
- Mental health: mental wellbeing and adults
- Mental health: mental wellbeing and children
Multiple sclerosis
Oral health
- Oral health: introduction
- Oral health: key data sources - adults
- Oral health: key data sources - children
- Oral health: key points
- Oral health: key references and evidence
- Oral health: policy context
- Oral health: risk factors
- Oral health: useful links
Data
- Oral health: adults - future projections
- Oral health: adults with 21 or more teeth - future projections
- Oral health: adults with no natural teeth - future projections
- Oral health: adults - trend data
- Oral health: children - future projections
- Oral health: children - inequalities data
- Oral health: children - international data
- Oral health: international data on 12-year-olds
- Oral health: international data on 12-year-olds - trends
- Oral health: international data on 5-year-olds
- Oral health: children - NHS board data
- Oral health: children - trend data
- Oral health: data introduction
Stroke
Life circumstances
Community wellbeing
Crime
Income and economy
- Income and economy: introduction
- Income and economy: key points
- Income and economy: key data sources
- Income and economy: key references and evidence
- Income and economy: policy context
- Income and economy: useful links
Data
- Income and economy: economic activity
- Income and economy: data introduction
- Income and economy: deprivation
- Income and economy: financial concerns
- Income and economy: unable to work due to illness/disability
- Income and economy: Income Support
- Income and economy: real unemployment
- Real unemployment as a percentage of the working age population, 2007
- Income and economy: claimant unemployment
Physical environment
Social environment
- Social environment: introduction
- Social environment: key data sources
- Social environment: key references and evidence
- Social environment: useful links
Data
- Social environment: data introduction
- Social environment: lone parent households
- Social environment: lone pensioner households
- Social environment: rating of neighbourhood
- Social environment: recycling
- Social environment: social grade
- Social environment: providers of unpaid care
- Social environment: volunteering
Population dynamics
Healthy life expectancy
- Healthy life expectancy: introduction
- Healthy life expectancy: key data sources
- Healthy life expectancy: key points
- Healthy life expectancy: policy context
- Healthy life expectancy: references
- Healthy life expectancy: useful links
Data
- Healthy life expectancy: community health partnerships
- Healthy life expectancy: data introduction
- Healthy life expectancy: deprivation deciles
- Healthy life expectancy: deprivation quintiles
- Life expectancy: intermediate geographies and locally defined areas
- Healthy life expectancy: international comparisons
- Healthy life expectancy: NHS boards
- Healthy life expectancy: urban rural classification
- Healthy life expectancy: Scotland
- Healthy life expectancy: UK comparisons
Migration
Population
- Population: key points
- Population: introduction
- Population: key data sources
- Population: key references
- Population: policy context
- Population: useful links
Data
- Population: household projections by Council
- Population: household projections for Scotland
- Population: estimates for Community Health Partnerships (CHPs)
- Population: data introduction
- Population: estimates by NHS Board
- Population: projections by NHS Board
- Population: estimates by Council
- Population: projections by Council
- Population: estimates for Scotland
- Population: projections for Scotland
Pregnancy and births
- Pregnancy and births: definitions
- Pregnancy and births: introduction
- Pregnancy and births: key data sources
- Pregnancy and births: key points
- Pregnancy and births: policy context
- Pregnancy and births: key references and evidence
- Pregnancy and births: avoidable risk factors during pregnancy
- Pregnancy and births: useful links
Population groups
Ethnic minorities
- Ethnic minorities: defining ethnicity and race
- Ethnic minorities: introduction
- Ethnic minorities: key data sources
- Ethnic minorities: key points
- Ethnic minorities: key references and evidence
- Ethnic minorities: policy context
- Ethnic minorities: useful links
Data
- Ethnic minorities: data introduction
- Ethnic minorities: coronary heart disease incidence
- Ethnic minorities: ethnic classification in the Census
- Ethnic minorities: specialised databases
- Ethnic minorities: mortality in Scotland by country of birth
- Ethnic minorities: population composition from 2001 Census
- Ethnic minorities: self-assessed health from 2001 Census
- Ethnic minorities: data from surveys
LGB people
- Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people: defintions
- Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people: introduction
- Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people: key data sources
- Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people: key points
- Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people: key references and evidence
- Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people: policy context
- Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people: useful links
Publications
Reports and papers
- ScotPHO reports and papers: alcohol attributable mortality and morbidity
- ScotPHO reports and papers: How much are people in Scotland really drinking?
- ScotPHO reports and papers: Mortality amenable to health care in Scotland 1981-2004
- ScotPHO reports and papers: Dimensions of diversity report
- ScotPHO reports and papers: linked SHeS report
- ScotPHO reports and papers: measuring health inequalities
- ScotPHO reports and papers: Scotland's mental health and its context - adults 2009
- ScotPHO reports and papers: obesity in Scotland
- ScotPHO reports and papers: Are people in Scotland becoming more active?
- ScotPHO reports and papers
- ScotPHO reports and papers: Scottish mortality in a European context 1950-2000
- ScotPHO reports and papers: smoking cessation statistics 2006
- ScotPHO reports and papers: smoking cessation statistics 2007
- ScotPHO reports and papers: smoking cessation statistics 2008
- ScotPHO reports and papers: NHS Smoking Cessation Service Statistics (Scotland) 2008/09
- ScotPHO reports and papers: tobacco atlas
- ScotPHO reports and papers: tobacco smoking in Scotland
- ScotPHO reports and papers: Young adult smokers in Scotland
Resources
News alerts
- How we compile the news alerts pages
- News alerts
- News alerts: w/b 2nd January 2010
- News alerts: w/b 5th December 2009
- News alerts: w/b 6th February 2010
- News alerts: w/b 9th January 2010
- News alerts:w/b 12th December 2009
- News alerts: w/b 13th February 2010
- News alerts: w/b 16th January 2010
- News alerts: w/b 20th February 2010
- News alerts: w/b 23rd January 2010
- News alerts: w/b 27th February 2010
- News alerts: w/b 30th January 2010
Overview of key data sources
Surveys
Cross-sectional
- Overview of key data sources: Adult Dental Health Survey (ADHS)
- Overview of key data sources: General Household Survey
- Overview of key data sources: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children
- Overview of key data sources: Health Education Population Survey
- Overview of key data sources: Knowledge, Attitudes and Motivations to Health module
- Overview of key data sources: National Dental Inspection Programme (NDIP) - 2003-present
- Overview of key data sources: Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey
- Overview of key data sources: Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
- Overview of key data sources: Scottish Health Boards' Dental Epidemiological Programme (SHBDEP) 1987-2001
- Overview of key data sources: Scottish House Condition Survey
- Overview of key data sources: Scottish Health Survey
- Overview of key data sources: Scottish Household Survey
- Overview of key data sources: Scottish Social Attitudes Survey