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Public Health Priorities for Scotland Public Health Priorities for Scotland b c Public Health Priorities for Scotland 01 Contents 01 Foreword 02 02 Why we need change: 04 Scotland’s Health 03 The Road to here: Developing the Priorities 06 The Priorities 08 Priority 1 A Scotland where we live in vibrant, healthy and safe places and communities 08 Priority 2 A Scotland where we flourish in our early years 14 Priority 3 A Scotland where we have good mental wellbeing 20 Priority 4 A Scotland where we reduce the use of and harm from alcohol, tobacco and other drugs 26 Priority 5 A Scotland where we have a sustainable, inclusive economy with equality of outcomes for all 32 Priority 6 A Scotland where we eat well, have a healthy weight and are physically active 38 Our Reform Principles 44 Next Steps 46 Appendix 48 02 01 Foreword In a vibrant, modern Scotland it should be in the places we live and through the lives we possible for everyone to be as healthy as they lead. These are the places where we must can be. It should be the case that the social, work to make it easier for people to be healthy, economic and physical environments we live and the efforts of society as a whole must in help create health and wellbeing, and that increasingly turn towards supporting this sort local communities and public services make of ‘wellbeing creation’. it possible for individuals to take positive decisions about their own health and feel These public health priorities represent an supported to do so. important milestone. They represent agreement between the Scottish Government and Unfortunately, for too many people in Scotland Local Government about the importance of and in too many places, this is not the case. focusing our efforts to improve the health of As a nation, our overall health is unacceptably the population. The priorities connect strongly poor in comparison to other Western European to, and will help accelerate, our wider work countries, and many people living in our most and include local strategic planning and deprived communities still experience poorer partnership activity; the refreshed National health than those living in our wealthier areas. Performance Framework and related National Outcomes; our Digital Health and Care Strategy, Life expectancy in Scotland is a success and forthcoming public health policies to be story because we are living longer than ever published in the coming weeks and months, before. But life expectancy, and our healthy life and our efforts towards sustainable economic expectancy – the years we live in good health growth. This document also sets out how we will – varies significantly across Scotland. This work together and with other parts of the system variation has a huge impact on individuals, to achieve this change (our reform principles). on communities and on Scotland as a whole. This variation is unacceptable. And these priorities are not just for our public health professionals. This document is intended We want Scotland to be a place where to be a foundation for the whole system, everybody thrives. We want to reset how for public services, third sector, community Scotland thinks about wellbeing and health. organisations and others, to work better Wellbeing cannot be created and sustained by together to improve Scotland’s health, and the NHS alone. to empower people and communities. It is a starting point for new preventative approaches, High quality and equitable healthcare and health and a new awareness around wellbeing, that will protection services are vital in improving and develop and strengthen in the coming years. maintaining health, addressing health inequalities and protecting us from communicable and Over the last year, the Scottish Government environmental threats. But it’s not primarily in our and the Convention of Scottish Local hospitals or our GP surgeries that health is first Authorities (COSLA) have engaged widely to created. It is in our homes and our communities, develop and agree these priorities. The six Public Health Priorities for Scotland 03 priorities presented here reflect a consensus approaches to provide people with the means on the most important things Scotland as a to drive change in their communities and to whole must focus on over the next decade if make more informed decisions about their we are to improve the health of the population. health and healthcare. They will require action by national and local government, and we are building consensus This is only the first step of our partnership of and partnerships across the system to make reform to improve the public’s health. We have progress. We will work closely with the NHS, started work to develop a new national public integration authorities, community planning health body for Scotland, which will provide partnerships, the third and independent support for delivery of change at national and sectors, and with community voices. And we local level. And we will be working to develop will look for opportunities to work with private stronger support for partnerships who are organisations in the pursuit of improving collaborating with communities locally to population health where it is appropriate support communities locally to create wellbeing. and possible to do so. None of this will be easy and the challenge is Our ultimate aim is to improve the health of the considerable. But our partnership presents population and to reduce the unacceptable a real opportunity to create long-lasting and variation in life expectancy that exists across sustained improvements in the health and Scotland. Tackling the health inequalities that wellbeing of our communities. prevent good health runs through all that we do, and this is reflected in our reform principles. We thank all those organisations who have agreed In taking that work forward we are committed to contribute their support and we look forward to to a shared vision for a modern, inclusive working together with them in the shared interests Scotland where everyone is able to live with of the people of Scotland. Over the coming human dignity. months, we hope many more partners will join us so, that together, we can enable a new coalition We will ensure our approach to improving for the public’s health in Scotland. the health of the population is fully consistent with Scotland’s commitment to equality and human rights, including the duty we have to meet international obligations and to work in Aileen Campbell MSP, ways that eliminate discrimination, advance Minister for Public Health, equality of opportunity and foster good relations The Scottish Government between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. Working together, we will make our public Councillor Peter Johnston, services more sustainable. We will embrace Health and Wellbeing Spokesperson, new and innovative technologies and COSLA 04 02 Why we need change: Scotland’s Health Over the last century our health has improved. in Western Europe and the lowest of all UK There have been long term increases in average countries. This was not always the case – in life expectancy in Scotland and we have seen the earlier half of the 20th century Scotland’s considerable improvements in the overall health life expectancy was well aligned with others of the population. In Scotland, and in other in Europe. (Figure 1 below). countries, this progress is a result of public health efforts including action to tackle infectious While life expectancy is increasing overall, disease and initiatives to provide clean water there are significant differences in the life and sanitation. The provision of high quality expectancy and health of people across healthcare to those who need it has also Scotland, depending on factors such as helped improve the health of the population. where they live, their age and gender, and their ethnic group. People living in less In 2018, the average life expectancy at affluent areas of Scotland have a shorter birth across Scotland was 81 years for life expectancy than those living in females and 77 years for males. People wealthier areas. (Figure 2 opposite). are now living longer than ever before, and that is a huge success. Healthy life expectancy – the number of years we can expect to live in good health – also Despite this tremendous progress, Scotland varies significantly across Scotland. At the now has one of the lowest life expectancies population level, there are marked differences Figure 1: Life Expectancy in Scotland (red line) and other Western European countries 85 Western Europe 80 Scotland Craigmillar 75 (Edinburgh) 70 65 Life Expectancy at Birth (years) 60 16 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1990 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 20 Source: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Life Expectancy & Probability of Death Data Visualization. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, 2016. Available from http://vizhub.healthdata.org/le/. (Accessed June 2018) Public Health Priorities for Scotland 05 between the most and least deprived areas in health problems or because of the requirement terms of how long people can expect to live in to care for loved-ones who are unwell. good health. This can be a difference of up to 28 years for men and 25 years for women. There are human costs in terms of life expectancy and years lived in poor health, These differences are strongly influenced but this also limits our ambition to build a by the social conditions in Scotland, the thriving and prosperous Scotland where our circumstances into which people are born, people achieve their full potential. For our the places where they live, their education, the public services, responding effectively to work they undertake, and the extent to which this burden of poor health and inequality good social networks exist.
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