Places for Health: Creating Healthy, Vibrant and Safe Communities

This event will examine how we can work across sectors – health, housing, community planning and regeneration – to design and sustain good quality places to live and work that support our health and wellbeing. Nourish will be attending to speak about the link between places, food, and health.

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Creating safe places that nurture health is central to the public health agenda

In June 2018 the Scottish Government published the Public Health Priorities for Scotland, which emphasised the value of creating good places that nurture health, and enable us to create vibrant, healthy and safe communities.

There are undeniable links between inequality and health, and life expectancy in the least affluent areas can differ up to 28 and 25 years respectively for men and women. Subsequently, inequality and the quality of the places we live is also connected – with only a third of households in the most deprived urban areas of having good access to natural environment or wooded area in their neighbourhood.

Creating healthier places is a priority for many sectors – local authorities, health boards, social care, community planning and regeneration and housing – and we need to work together to reduce health inequalities and improve our standard of living.

Join Holyrood on 25 October as we examine how we can improve Scotland’s health, empower people and communities and adopt a partnership approach to improve public health.

Key issues we’ll examine with you

• Empowering communities to be at the heart of decision-making
• Working with local people to create and maintain places that are beneficial to health, wellbeing and quality of life
• Integrating health, housing, environment, transport and community planning to improve outcomes and support sustainability
• Understanding how data can assist our understanding of communities, and using this a springboard to make more informed decisions