4.2 Drug deaths and socio-economic trends in Scotland

15 Minutes on Health Inequalities

Trends in drug deaths and socio-economic determinants in Scotland: which age groups and birth cohorts are most effected?
In this special episode, in honour of European Public Health Week’s theme “Health is a Political Choice”, Anna Pearce, Denise Brown and Emma Congreve discuss work, funded by the Health Foundation, exploring trends in drug deaths and socio-economic determinants in Scotland: https://fraserofallander.org/?post_type=publications&p=46814

The other publications mentioned in this podcast are:

• Trends in Health Inequalities in Scotland
• Trends in the socio-economic determinants of health in Scotland
• Health inequalities in Scotland: An independent review - The Health Foundation
• Deaths of despair: cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality among young men in Scotland
• Deaths from ‘diseases of despair’ in Britain

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