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Health Statistics

Traffic Light Reports

The Traffic Lights have been designed to:

  • Make it easier to understand health information.
  • Provide health and non-health staff with a systematic, structured tool.
  • Make it easier to see differences between neighbourhoods and areas.
  • Give a starting point for discussion on health issues.
  • Flag issues that need to be investigated further.
  • Help planners pinpoint areas and topics for action.

More information about:

Community Health and Wellbeing Profiles

Community Health and Wellbeing Profiles were first published by HealthScotland in July 2004 following a successful pilot of the Community Profile of Paisley. 

Constituency Profiles

The 2004 Constituency Health and Well-being Profiles were produced by NHS Health Scotland in partnership with ISD Scotland and Communities Scotland.  An earlier set of profiles was produced by the then Public Health Institute of Scotland (PHIS) in 2001.

Lifestyle Surveys

Comparisons of previous NHS Grampian lifestyle surveys enable lifestyle changes to be monitored and influence the development of policies and services to promote and improve health and to tackle health inequalities. In addition, these surveys provide the opportunity to collect new types of information relevant to health issues and developments within specific areas of Grampian.

The latest surveys are available from the links below but local area and earlier surveys are found by searching the document library with the following terms: Topic: Health Intelligence and Sub-topic: Lifestyle survey.

Growing Up in Scotland

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GUS is an exciting new study that follows the lives of a national sample of Scotland's children from infancy through to their teens. This is one of the largest longitudinal studies ever done in Scotland and will provide information that will help develop policies affecting children and their families in Scotland.

The study is following 8,000 children annually. The second stage of GUS (2008-2013) has recently been commissioned by The Scottish Government. The Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) will continue to lead the study, in collaboration with CRFR at the University of Edinburgh and the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow.

To find out more about the study, view the latest GUS news or download findings go to the GUS website.

Scottish Government Statistics

Some examples of sources of National Statistical Information:

  • Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics is the Scottish Executive's ongoing programme to improve the availability, consistency and accessibility of small area statistics in Scotland.
  • Statistics and links to sources of data on the health of people in Scotland, and NHS and Local Authority data on the provision and use of health and community care services in Scotland.
  • Information Services Division (ISD) is Scotland's national organisation for health information, statistics and IT services.