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This report outlines how a human rights-based approach will support recovery from COVID-19 and the resulting control measures. This is necessary to prevent negative impacts on health for the most marginalised people in our communities, and to reduce health inequalities.

A series of three reports relating to the evaluation of the Scottish Government shielding programme. There is a full report, a summary version and a separate data report. The data report presents detailed COVID-19 test and mortality data relating to shielding.

This report looks at explanations for the spatial variation in COVID-19 mortality across Scotland relating to remoteness/rurality, income deprivation, household overcrowding and earliest COVID-19 death within an area.

This review looks at recent evidence on how COVID-19 disease control measures affected people’s diet, physical activity behaviours and weight.

This report looks at findings from a number of projects and information sources, to provide intelligence on COVID-19 in education settings in Scotland. It looks at results following the return of pupils to education in August 2020, but includes data from earlier periods where this is relevant.

This document set out Public Health Scotland's surveillance strategy for COVID-19 vaccinations in Scotland. Note this document is no longer updated.

The Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) monitoring report 2021 presents all the latest available data on key alcohol indicators in Scotland. Supporting data sets and charts can be found in the workbooks below.

This publication comprises two reports. The first report presents a summary of three strands of work undertaken by Public Health Scotland (PHS) to support workshops involving Scottish Government with universities and other stakeholders to enable the safe return of students at the start of second term. The second report describes the experience of students who self-isolated due to COVID-19 while living in term-time accomodation. It is based on interviews with students and looks at their experience of self-isolation in terms of the communication they received, their access to practical support and their suggestions for change going forward.

Public Health Scotland ran the second round of the COVID-19 Early Years Impact and Resilience survey in November/December 2020 to find out how children in Scotland aged 2 to 7 years continue to be affected by COVID-19. The survey covered the following themes: key behaviours; children’s play and learning; use of outdoor spaces and social interactions; the experience of parents and carers during COVID-19 in Scotland; and the experience of COVID-19 and specific infection control measures.

The report presents the distribution of cases of COVID-19 across the pupil population in Scotland from 17 August to 18 October 2020, covering the period of Term 1 of the 2020 to 2021 school year. These data show the occurrence of COVID-19 cases in this population across the course of Term 1, and by area, and by school type. This does not reflect directly the measurement of COVID-19 incidents within schools, as not all pupil cases identified will have been present in school during their infectious period.