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Prevention Watch March 2025

A regular Scottish Health Equity Research Unit (SHERU) briefing that looks at prevention

A new model for economic inactivity in Scotland

Replicating alternative labour market projections

Prevention Watch January 2025

A regular Scottish Health Equity Research Unit (SHERU) briefing that looks at prevention.

New awards of disability benefits for adults

Comparing Scotland with England and Wales

Scotland's Census

Understanding changes in health and socioeconomic inequality since 2011

Prevention Watch October 2024

A regular Scottish Health Equity Research Unit (SHERU) briefing that looks at prevention as a means of public service delivery to reduce health inequalities in Scotland.

2024 Inequality Landscape: Health and Socioeconomic Divides in Scotland

Report

This report picks up from the previous work commissioned by the Health Foundation as part of their independent review of health inequalities in Scotland. We now have more evidence of the impact of the pandemic and can see that people have endured steep rises in the cost of living that have affected living standards across Scotland. This report highlights a worsening situation in socioeconomic and health inequalities. The pandemic has played a role, but the roots of this decline stretch back long before this.

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