Healthy Communities: Meeting the Shared Challenge is a Scottish Government funded programme that aims to encourage and support community-led approaches to health improvement throughout Scotland. This conference aims to share experiences and lessons from across Scotland, to link community-led health to key policy agendas, and help signpost the resources that are now available to support community-led health.
This Food Standards Agency workshop took place on 15 April 2008 and was attended by academic experts in the field of portion size and obesity research.
Following nine years of policy implementation of the Scottish Diet Action Plan (SDAP), NHS Health Scotland conducted a review of the effectiveness and appropriateness of the implementation of the SDAP.
The National Social Marketing (NSM) Centre re-developed this toolkit in August 2007 in order to describe and explain the key principles and concepts relating to the application and use of social marketing. This is the second edition.
The Food & Health Alliance conference - Moving forward with food and health which was held in February 2008 focused on co-ordinating members' contributions on the consultation for the first National Food Policy.
The theme for the Food & Health Alliance’s conference back in February 2007 was reflection and celebration with the event being titled: Looking back and moving forward: a celebration of the successes of the Scottish Diet Action Plan
The Department of Health published this strategic framework in July 2008, in order to maximise the potential of social marketing and health-related behaviour.
This article from the January 2009 edition of the FHA newsletter explains how the National Performance Framework links to evaluation and how we know our work is having an impact. It also outlines what NHS Health Scotland and partners are doing to support local planning of health improvement work in food and health.
The HELENA study is a cross-sectional, crossover and pilot community intervention, multi-centre study which looks at the many physiological and psychological changes that affect nutritional needs and habits. Food choices and determinants are also considered.
This research and development centre works across all areas of research, policy, implementation and community life to help inform national health improvement and tackle health inequaties. It has a particular focus on work that will improve the health of Glasgow’s population.
Scotland's national health improvement agency covers every aspect of health improvement, from gathering evidence, to planning, delivery and evaluation, and spans the range of health topics, settings and life stages.
It promotes the development of health improvement at every opportunity within the NHS as well as defining and highlighting effective practise in Scotland.
