SHERU will be trialling a new and innovative approach within Scotland. We are focusing on understanding how two specific national strategies concerning key socio-economic determinants of health are impacting on health inequalities in Scotland: Housing and Employability.
We recognise that analysis of health inequalities too often only focuses on the national level policy context, with more needed to how these inequities can be shifted and addressed locally. In doing so we recognise the local level contextual experiences and environments navigated within the policy delivery space.
As part of this we will exploring the implementation of two major national level strategies: Housing to 2040 and No One Left Behind. This work will also focus on two populations of interest living on a low income with young children and men aged 18-44. These target groups were selected, underpinned by a robust statistical foundation that have highlighted unequal health outcomes for adult men and children in Scotland.
Working through a three-part integrated model, SHERU aims to situate and ascertain how local authorities experience the delivery and operationalisation of these major national strategies with perspectives and evidence generated across a range of information sources and stakeholders.
