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Scottish Public Health Observatory
Health & well-being related information
Jennifer Bishop
Information Services, NHS Scotland
Collaboration
– Information Services Division
– NHS Health Scotland
– Health Protection Scotland (HPS)
– General Register’s Office for Scotland
(GROS)
– Glasgow Centre for Population Health
(GCPH)
– NHS24
2008 Initiatives
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SCOTPHO Website
Community Health and Wellbeing Profiles
Healthy Life Expectancy
Alcohol survey review
The Aftershock of Deindustrialisation
www.scotpho.org.uk
Community Health and Wellbeing
Profiles
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Published in June 2008 at CHP level
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61 indicators of health and the wider determinants of health
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Designed to:
– Provide organisations and communities with up-to-date
and locally-relevant public health intelligence
– Highlight health and social inequalities
– Show trends in key indicators
– Provide local information for targeting resources and
priority-setting
– Develop knowledge of the complex nature of health and
its determinants.
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Sub CHP level will be published in December
Healthy Life Expectancy
• An expansion of the ScotPHO webpages on
healthy life expectancy
• Release date 16th December
• Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy
– Scotland
– NHS boards
– CHPs
– Deprivation
– urban/rural groups
LE and HLE by deprivation decile in Scotland,
males, 2005-2006
LE or HLE (years)
85
80
LE
75
HLE
95% CL
70
65
60
55
50
10 (least
deprived)
9
8
7
6
5
Deprivation decile
4
3
2
1 (most
deprived)
How much are people in Scotland really
drinking?
• A review of data from Scotland’s routine
national surveys
• Examined various aspects of survey
methodology to determine which may
account for increased under-estimation
• Due to stronger and bigger drinks
• Increase in estimates of % exceeding
weekly recommended limits
– 27%
34% in men
– 14%
23% in women
The Aftershock of Deindustrialisation
Trends in mortality in Scotland and other parts of
post-industrial Europe
April 2008
• comparisons with (West of) Scotland and other
post-industrial areas of Europe
• life expectancy
• age, sex, and cause specific death rates
• over the last 20-25 years.
In comparison to similar
deindustrialised areas
in the UK and Europe
Scotland has
• High mortality (especially the West of Scotland)
• Slow rates of improvement
But also has…
• Relatively favourable rates of unemployment and
education attainment
Contacts
• [email protected]
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