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PHS Board papers for 24 May 2023

This briefing was developed by Public Health Scotland, Adaptation Scotland and the Improvement Service. It aims to increase awareness of how climate change and adaptation responses can affect health and health inequalities. It also decribes public health principles that could help to achieve climate resilience, health and equity.

Climate change directly and indirectly harms health and wellbeing, widening existing inequalities. Climate action is an opportunity to deliver co-benefits for population health, wellbeing and equity. This document sets out 41 high-level actions across three focus areas that PHS will take from 2023 through to 2026. These actions aim to place population health, wellbeing and equity at the heart of climate action and embed climate action in all PHS’s work to improve and protect population health and reduce inequalities.

We have produced a range of resources to help prison services and stakeholders provide support in relation to the winter vaccines programme.

The pandemic response disrupted normal functioning of the Scottish Health Protection Network (SHPN) and created significant pressure on the health protection workforce across Scotland. The 2022/23 Report shows the start of the transition of the Network back to business as usual with several network areas remobilising and the publication of an external review, which made a number of recommendations for the future of SHPN.

These booklets give information on the different stages of weaning in an easy to read format.

PHS Board papers for 18 October 2023

Public Health Scotland commissioned this report from the Improvement Service. It gathers insights from a range of violence against women and girls (VAWG) organisations and women’s organisations which work with minority ethnic women. The report aims to give insight into what is needed from VAWG policy and practice to improve the lives of minority ethnic women and girls and address the inequalities they face as victims and survivors of violence and abuse.

A one-page briefing to help NHS colleagues share and discuss with their peers how NHS Scotland can use its role as an anchor institution to reduce health inequalities in Scotland.

Posters to highlight the importance of being vaccinated against measles at any age.