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  • Health Inequalities Policy Review

    • 03 June 2013
    • Resources
    • Equality

    This document was written to provide evidence to the 2013 Scottish Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities. It reviews the current policy and the evidence about what works to address health inequalities.

  • The chance to work in Scotland

    • 01 June 2013
    • Report
    • Poverty

    Critiques the approaches in Scotland to reduce worklessness

  • Physical activity advice resources

    • 07 February 2013
    • Resources
    • Physical activity

    Additional resources to help health and care practitioners discuss physical activity with the people they support. These resources support the National Physical Activity Pathway approach to raising the issue of physical activity.

  • PRISMS data manual

    • 01 August 2010
    • Reference materials
    • Pharmacy and prescribing
    PRISMS data manual...
  • WEMWBS acceptability and validation in English and Scottish secondary school students (the WAVES Project)

    • 31 March 2010
    • Report
    • Mental health

    A report from a commissioned project to test the acceptability, validity and reliability of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) with English and Scottish Secondary School students (aged 13 - 15 years).

  • Incineration of waste and reported human health effects

    • 28 October 2009
    • Report
    • Environmental health
    • Health protection
    Incineration of waste and reported human health effects...
  • Communicating with the public about health risks

    • 01 September 2008
    • Guidance
    • Health protection
    Communicating with the public about health risks...
  • Your baby has a hearing loss

    • 24 September 2007
    • Resources
    • Conditions and diseases
    • Screening

    This booklet answers some common questions, and describes the support available for you and your baby and gives details of where you can go for further information.

  • Measuring positive mental health: Developing a new scale

    • 21 December 2006
    • Report
    • Mental health

    Briefing note on research by Warwick and Edinburgh Universities to psychometrically validate Affectometer 2 for the UK. Affectometer 2 is a scale previously identified as promising for assessing population positive mental health. The research also developed a revised and shortened scale, the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS).

  • Validating the Affectometer 2 scale and developing WEMWBS for the UK

    • 10 September 2006
    • Report
    • Mental health

    Research report on commissioned work to validate Affectometer 2 and develop and validate a new positive mental health scale, the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS).