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In this guest blog, Elaine Caldow, Public Health Programme Lead at NHS Ayrshire and Arran and member of the Environment and Spaces for Public Health Partnership Group, discusses how our homes are central to health and wellbeing, and why it is important to look at how people living in different housing tenures used greenspace during the pandemic.

Our latest blog focuses on the new online public health learning hub and how it can help all of us to easily answer the question of what public health is.

Communities and population groups across Scotland are affected by inequalities. In Scotland, all public services are responsible for ensuring the services they deliver are inclusive.

In this blog, Sarra Naylor, Information Manager & National Drug-related Death Data Coordinator at Public Health Scotland (PHS), outlines how a new data-processing system, Databelt, is transforming the way suspected drug-related deaths (sDRDs) are identified, shared and used to support national and local responses.

Monitoring changes in drug trends, harms and use of services to inform immediate and short-term actions that reduce drug harms

Monitoring changes in drug trends, harms and use of services to inform immediate and short-term actions that reduce drug harms

Provides a working definition and framework to consider risk management and risk response in the context of an emergent incident within a local area

Provides a working definition and framework to consider risk management and risk response in the context of an emergent incident within a local area

Provides a working definition and framework to consider risk management and risk response in the context of an emergent incident within a local area

Provides a working definition and framework to consider risk management and risk response in the context of an emergent incident within a local area