Latest Publications from the Scottish Health Equity Research Unit

SHERU Response: Population Health Framework

June 19, 2025

Released 17 June 2025, the Scottish Government–COSLA Population Health Framework champions primary prevention and whole-system collaboration to narrow Scotland’s socioeconomic…

Exploring the Health Impacts of Austerity

June 11, 2025

This Spotlight on Research highlights evidence on the impact of spending cuts on health inequalities, based on research from the…

Air Pollution and Inequality in Scotland

June 4, 2025

This report examines the relationship between markers of socioeconomic inequality and air quality in urban areas, discusses Scotland’s air quality…

Addressing Survey Response Challenges and Leveraging Data Integration in Scotland

May 28, 2025

Collaborative Research for Meaningful Impact

May 28, 2025

Prevention Watch May 2025

May 23, 2025

Prevention Watch is a regular Scottish Health Equity Research Unit (SHERU) briefing that looks at prevention as a means of…

New child poverty data and updates on methodological changes

April 8, 2025

Families with young children are one of the population groups that SHERU are monitoring closely due to the evidenced links…

SHERU response to the UKG Green Paper on changes to health and disability benefits

March 19, 2025

The Green Paper on ill health and disability welfare reform published on the 18th March follows weeks of media speculation…

Wealth disparities and health inequalities

March 12, 2025

A link to a downloadable PDF of this report can be found here.

Prevention Watch – March 2025

March 7, 2025

Prevention Watch is a regular Scottish Health Equity Research Unit (SHERU) briefing that looks at prevention as a means of…

A new model for economic inactivity in Scotland: Replicating alternative labour market projections

February 12, 2025

In November, the Resolution Foundation released a briefing looking at alternative ways of estimating employment rates [1]. The official source…

Prevention Watch – January 2025

January 15, 2025

Prevention Watch is a regular Scottish Health Equity Research Unit (SHERU) briefing that looks at prevention as a means of…