Publications

The Scottish Inclusion Health and Homelessness Conference was held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 27th March 2019. These are the presentations from the breakout sessions.

The Hidden Homelessness Conference was held on the 25th February 2020. It focused on women, LGBTQ+, youths, migrant health and mental health in homelessness, bringing together a coalition of partners to focus on the issues affecting the health and wellbeing of those who are experiencing homelessness. These are the plenary presentations from the conference.

Our briefing paper outlines housing strategies and plans that local authorities produce. It highlights opportunities for health professionals to engage with these plans and strategies. This is to maximise the contribution these plan and strategy documents can make to good health and reducing health inequalities. Please note this publication is branded as NHS Health Scotland and may be out dated. It is now managed by Public Health Scotland.

This is the 5th in our series of inequality briefings. It focuses on the role that good-quality housing can play in improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. Please note this publication is branded as NHS Health Scotland and may be out dated. It is now managed by Public Health Scotland.

This resource uses case studies to identify and share good practices of how to reduce child poverty locally.

The purpose of this report was to look at whether there was different access to, and use of, private and public greenspace during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to housing tenure.

This report is a summary of the high-level evidence behind the 14 themes of the Place Standard Tool, the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes and their links with health and wellbeing.

This report was produced by the Data and Evidence subgroup of the Environment and Spaces for Public Health Partnership Group, previously the Social and System Recovery Environment and Spaces Group.

These papers look at the evidence of whether road space reallocation can contribute to health and assess the potential impacts on health within Scotland. They also make recommendations for future action.