PHS policy focus briefing for 2026
- Type
- Resources
- Published
- 08 December 2025
- Corporate information
Description
PHS supports a public health approach to prevention. In the next five years, the Scottish Parliament has the potential to transform health and wellbeing in Scotland for the long term.
Scotland’s life expectancy continues to be the worst in Western Europe.
The gap in healthy life expectancy between the wealthiest and poorest is more than 25 years.
This briefing sets out specific and evidence-based proposals for change.
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