Published Date: 10 June 2010 SCOTLAND is not seeing health improvements in line with the level of government spending, according to a new study. • A report by a think-tank and auditors calls for more research into regional behaviour and health systems – to explain why Scotland’s health continues to struggle to improve. Picture: Getty [...]
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Exclusive: Mike Merritt 30 May 2010 The Western Isles’ director of public health is warning the Outer Hebrides faces a population timebomb, with the young leaving in droves and the area becoming an enclave for the elderly. In her annual report, Dr Sheila Scott says that of all 40 community health partnerships in Scotland, the [...]
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Text message plan to curb binge drinking among young adults Published Date: 13 May 2010 By Frank Urquhart SCOTTISH health professionals are turning to text messaging in a radical bid to curb binge drinking among young adults. NHS Grampian researchers have been chosen to carry out a year-long project in which people in their twenties [...]
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The Registrar General for Scotland today published a report on differences in life expectancy between urban and rural areas, deprived and less deprived areas, and Community Health Partnership areas. The report shows life expectancy in the period 2006-2008. Commenting on these results, Registrar General for Scotland Duncan Macniven said: “This report shows that life expectancy [...]
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