Chronic pain is experienced unequally by different population groups; we outline examples
from the pain literature of inequities related to gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic and …

Background The new Scottish GP contract commenced in April 2018 with a stated aim of
mitigating health inequalities. Aim To determine the health characteristics and experiences …

Background: The Scottish Government's vision to transform primary care includes expansion
of the primary care multidisciplinary team (MDT), formalised in the new GP contract in April …

Background The Scottish Government's vision to transform primary care includes expansion
of the primary care multidisciplinary team (MDT), formalised in the new GP contract in April …

The aim of this review is to highlight the key issues in relation to food insecurity among
children and young people living in Scotland. It provides an overview of the current context …

Background The new Scottish GP contract introduced in April 2018 aims to improve quality
of care through expansion of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to enable GPs to spend more …

Background Health inequalities in Scotland are well documented, including the contribution
of different causes to inequalities in mortality. Our aim was to estimate inequalities within a …

Scotland experiences higher mortality rates and larger health inequalities than other high-
income countries, including the wider UK. The predominantly epidemiological evidence …

Measuring diversity in causes of mortality offers an insight into variation in health outcomes
within a population. Increased diversity in causes of mortality indicates that deaths have …

Executive summary In this analysis we have used the Growing Up in Scotland Study to
reveal how children born in 2004-05 experience changes in BMI category (underweight …