Children and young people: physical health and wellbeing
Data on children and young people’s physical health and wellbeing are available from the following sources:
- ScotPHO pages:
- Pregnancy, births, and maternity pages: infant and neonatal deaths and infant feeding and breastfeeding
- Oral health
- Injuries
- Immunisations
- Obesity
- 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):
- Healthy birth weight
- Live births
- Premature births
- Infant deaths, aged 0-1 years
- Perinatal mortality
- Babies exclusively breastfed at 6-8 weeks
- Developmental concerns at 27-30 months
- Immunisation uptake at 24 months: 6 in 1, and MMR
- Uptake of HPV vaccine in S1 and S3 (females, or all pupils)
- Children at risk of obesity
- Children with limiting long-term conditions
- Teenage pregnancies
- Unintentional injuries in under 5 year olds
- Child dental health in primary 1 and in primary 7
- Child healthy weight in primary 1
- Children hospitalised due to asthma, aged 0-15 years
- Deaths in children, aged 1-15 years
- Drug-related hospital admissions, aged 11-25 years
- Alcohol-related hospital admissions, aged 11-25 years
- Young people admitted to hospital due to assault, aged 11-25 years
- Routine Public Health Scotland statistics:
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.
