Publications

This resource provides senior NHSScotland staff an overview of their unique and key contributions to reducing health inequalities. It describes practical actions staff can put in place to reduce health inequalities ensuring the best attainable health outcomes for both the people and communities they serve and the staff they employ.

This information leaflet and poster both contain information on ticks, what diseases they carry, how to prevent being infected and what to do if you are bitten.

This document provides guidance on the public health management of illnesses caused by spore-forming bacteria (SFB) among people who inject drugs (PWID). The guidance focuses on...

Public health action in response to detecting high levels of lead in drinking water: good practice guidance for health protection teams in 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.

Health impact assessment of unconventional oil and gas in Scotland...

Waiting times validation manual...

This is the 1st in our series of inequality briefings. It focuses on what health inequalities are and ways in which we can reduce them.

NHS Health Scotland was tasked by the Scottish Government to lead the evaluation of Scotland's alcohol strategy through the Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) programme. It has been a collaboration between NHS Health Scotland and National Services Scotland Information Services Division. This report follows four previous annual reports, which have been published since 2011 and several discreet study reports.

This is the 2nd in our series of inequality briefings. It focuses on the role that good work for all can play in reducing health inequalities. It assumes that action about paid employment is complemented by a social security system that is also designed to protect health and reduce health inequalities.