Our Committee has backed the continuation of minimum unit pricing of alcohol and an increase in price per unit from 50p to 65p from September 30. The proposals will now be voted upon by the whole Parliament. Read our report: ow.ly/7ZB050R3VF2

Projections of multi-morbidity (MM) in the next 30 years in England. A continuation of prior trends, partly driven by the changing population. ⬆️Number of people with MM ⬆️Socioeconomic inequalities in MM, in particular working-age

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🆕In The BMJ, PHS colleagues discuss how recent estimates of alcohol-specific deaths rates do not alter the conclusion of the final evaluation report for #MinumumUnitPricing – MUP has had a positive impact in tackling health harms from alcohol. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q7… 🧵👇

Read more in our longer The BMJ #RapidResponse where we discuss: ▶️ The importance of natural experiment evidence ▶️ When, and which, control groups are suitable bmj.com/content/384/bm…

📚 Do you want to build your skills in #BurdenOfDisease assessment? ⏭️Register now for one of our #BurdenEU summer schools 1️⃣ General concepts of BOD 31/7-2/8, 2024 2️⃣ Burden of risk factors 7-9/8, 2024 3️⃣ Burden of infectious diseases 21-23/8, 2024 burden-eu.net/activities/sum…

Andrew Lee Public Health Scotland shares the opportunities in population health monitoring & the importance of a whole systems approach to develop impactful solutions Sustainable delivery through co-production & utilising the power of data & insights to improve health & wellbeing

We welcome Scottish Government's plans to increase minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol. Our research shows MUP has had a positive impact on tackling health harms from alcohol. Read more at: publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/apri…

📢 A study from #BurdenEU members has been published by BMJPublicHealth. ✍️Disability weights for environmental noise-related health states: results of a disability weights measurement study in #Europe Read the #OpenAcess paper👇 doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-…

“Understanding the past to inform the future” - Prof Sir Gregor Smith opens this afternoons session sharing the Scottish Burden of Disease alongside Public Health Scotland colleagues fatim lakha and Eilidh Fletcher #SBoD #ScotPH24 #Prevention

Our boys team played amazingly not losing a game today and the girls made it to the semifinals losing out on penalties. We are so proud of how everyone played today. #itsSLC

Our girls team with their medals just missing the goalie. We’re very proud of you all 🤩🤩🤩

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Today, Prof Sir Gregor Smith launched the annual CMO report for Scotland at Tramway, Glasgow #HealingArtsScotland. Grateful for being able to contribute to the report. Read the report 👇 gov.scot/publications/r…

PHS welcomes the minimum cost of alcohol in Scotland increasing from 50p to 65p per unit today. Research estimates that MUP reduced alcohol deaths and was likely to have reduced hospital admissions wholly attributable to alcohol up to the end of 2020. ➡️publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/sept…

📣 Delighted to announce the publication of 'The global burden of disease and Population Health Metrics' in #PopulationHealthMetrics, a journal with a significant track-record in publishing pivotal #BurdenOfDisease research. ⬇️ Click below to read more doi.org/10.1186/s12963…

🧵1. Young adults with learning disabilities are 9 times more likely to die from treatable conditions compared to adults in the general population – stark new findings in BMJ_Open from Ewelina Rydzewska School of Health in Social Science & Deborah Cairns et al ScottishLDO @UofGSHWhttps://bit.ly/4aXvNut

Young adults with #learningdisabilities are 9 times more likely to die from treatable conditions compared to adults in the general population – stark new findings in BMJ_Open from ScottishLDO School of Health in Social Science Deborah Cairns bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/2/e…

We've kicked off the day in #Hamilton where South Lanarkshire Council + NHS Lanarkshire are launching plans to work with the Collaboration for Health Equity in Scotland. Hugely inspiring hearing local stories and visions to improve lives in the area. More info⬇️ publichealthscotland.scot/news/2025/febr…