The Faculty of Public Health has published a Call to Action for a healthier, fairer and more productive Scotland.
In this new blog, Margaret Douglas and Tamasin Knight explore the Call to Action, and offer a template letter to write to your local MSP ✍
Read here ➡️ www.fph.org.uk/blog/a-healt...
Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh...preparing for the next pandemic! #qmu public health curriculum
Cover of Scottish Health Equity Research Unit report Poverty among young adult men in Scotland
📖 Weekend reading!
Poverty among young adult men in Scotland has risen sharply since the pandemic and is now higher than in the rest of the UK. They're also at higher risk of 'deaths of despair' from drugs, alcohol, and suicide.
scothealthequity.org/poverty-amon...
🏴 Poverty levels in Wales are some of the highest anywhere in the UK, with almost 1 in 3 children growing up in poverty.
This unacceptable situation cannot persist and the next Welsh Government have both an opportunity and a duty to change this. 🔽
🔔 NEW
Evaluation of knowledge, training in, and attitude towards physical activity promotion within Scottish healthcare professionals
✍️ Callum Leese, Callum Innes, Mark McVerry, Jerome Mayaud, Neil Gallacher
OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag006
Four ways the Trump administration attacked population health last week
youtube.com/shorts/3arwa...
“Inequality has left such a deep imprint on health and wellbeing not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope and age”
– Richard Wilkinson & @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social
#LSEInequalitiesBlog
Read the full #UKPoverty2026 report here: www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...
Good article. As so often - tobacco, alcohol, gambling, junk food - partial advertising bans just challenge harmful industries to find creative new approaches.
Article 1. The People’s Republic of China is a socialist state governed by a people’s democratic dictatorship...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
1 billion people are on the move today.
Let’s commit to ensuring that every migrant can access timely, affordable and dignified healthcare.
Learn more about WHO action to promote health of migrants:
bit.ly/4je2uYP
#HealthForAll
This time last year I penned a KJV-styled contemporary reimagining of the Christmas story from Luke.
Tragically, the situation has progressed very little—if at all. I would not recommend reading it to young children.
www.papyruswalk.com/2024/12/a-ch...
NEW 🔔 An exploration of cultural grounding in Indigenous health promotion: perspectives from First Nations communities in Canada
✍️ Brittany McBeath, Martine C Lévesque, Lucie Lévesque, Sonia Périllat-Amédée, Revathi Sahajpal, Marie-Claude Tremblay, Treena Delormier
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf211
In this new opinion piece published via @bmj.com, FPH President Professor Tracy Daszkiewicz outlines the changes we need to see in public health following the UK covid-19 inquiry's second report.
- Proper funding
- Clear communication
- A protected workforce
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
The graphic shows an outline of Scotland on top of Royal Bank of Scotland notes. Large bold text at the top says: 'Smoking and the Economy in Scotland'. ASH Scotland's logo is in the top right.
Discover the figures on how much smoking is estimated to cost the NHS, social care, and lost productivity due to ill health.
Learn more in our new Smoking and the Economy in Scotland evidence briefing - bit.ly/48suJhv
In Victoria, decades of progress are under threat: senior public health leader warns www.croakey.org/in-victoria-... #publichealth
#TransformScotHealth
Dr. Charlotte Refsum exploring the role of AI within preventio. Does AI facilitate agency?
During the pandemic racialized minority groups were hit harder by COVID 19
The pandemic made it clear that racism is not separate to health but sits at its core, shaping risks, resilience and outcomes
Thanks for reading.
Part 2
Racism as a determinant of health
Racism is widely acknowledged as a fundamental driver of health inequalities
Racism can be experienced in many ways
It also affects the care people receive
📣 New Concept Explainer!
Our most recent in the series looks at racism as a fundamental driver of health inequalities, influencing susceptibility to illness, the quality of healthcare received, and access to essential resources among racialised minority groups.
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This is Nathan Gill.
Nathan Gill was the Leader of Reform UK in Wales.
Nathan Gill is a long-term friend and ally of Nigel Farage.
Nathan Gill was arrested and convicted of being a Russian Asset - accepting Bribes in exchange for political influence.
Repost and make him famous.
Good article. Raises interesting issues.
Party A tells Party B that unless they fulfill certain conditions, Party A will continue to commit war crimes against Party C.
And the world welcomed this plan. 😞
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
"Athletic nicotine" - what next?!
As Gaza goes, so go we all.
Human rights are not supposed to be for some people, some of the time.
english.elpais.com/internationa...
From smuggling to spin: how tobacco giants hijacked the illicit trade debate
ash.org.uk/media-centre... @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org @whofctc.bsky.social
A very interesting presentation from our Brown Bag Seminar Series has just been posted on Youtube: "Bridging siloes: Understanding and addressing violence holistically in contexts of displacement and adversity" by Dr Khudejha Asghar
youtu.be/fP7NuOokkes
For an amazong summary of why this matters, why and how those industries use education programmes strategically see this excellent episode with @maizie333.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0Soc...
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Imagine if we all did public health messaging like this
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