Improving Scotland's health

Public health approach to prevention

Keeping people healthy and avoiding the risk of poor health, illness, injury, and early death

Food and physical activity

Information about physical activity and food areas of work

Gambling harms

Information about gambling harms and our work in this area.

Substance use

Information, resources and data about substance use in Scotland

Alcohol

Key statistics on alcohol misuse, related harms and national and local actions to reduce them

Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP)

Reporting on the independent evaluation of the impact of MUP for alcohol in Scotland

Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS)

Our work programme for Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy (MESAS)

Smoking

Information and resources about smoking and the impact of smoking on health inequalities