Children and young people: health behaviours
Data on children and young people’s health behaviours are available from the following sources:
- Indicators on the ScotPHO profiles (national and local level data, largely from the children and young people’s mental health and the children and young people’s profiles):
- Active travel to school
- Alcohol weekly drinkers, pupils aged 15 years
- Children getting sufficient sleep
- Children’s sleep quality
- Children meeting physical activity guidelines
- Children with problematic social media usage
- ScotPHO pages:
- Surveys:
- Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) (last collected 2022)
- Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS), now replaced with the Health and Wellbeing Census
The health of children and young people can also be also affected by the behaviour of others:
- Routine Public Health Scotland statistics: Infant feeding statistics
- ScotPHO pages: Infant feeding
- Indicators on the ScotPHO profiles:
- Post-partum smoking rate
- Exposure to secondhand smoke at 6-8 weeks
- Babies exclusively breastfed at 6-8 weeks
- Children with a parent consuming alcohol at hazardous or harmful levels
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.
