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Health Topics

There is a strong topics strand to Health Scotland's activities. In this section, find out more about our priority programmes of work (tobacco, food and health, physical activity and alcohol). Also, keep up-to-date with delivery plans in other health improvement programme areas.

• Alcohol
• Drugs
• Food and Health
• Immunisation
• Mental Health Improvement
• Physical Activity
• Screening
• Sexual Health and Well-being
• Tobacco

Healthy Settings

Health Scotland's settings-based approach involves promoting health in various settings and ensuring that staff in those settings recognise their important role in improving health and reducing health inequalities. In this section, you can also find out about our work to support Keep Well, which will see a huge investment to strengthen primary care services in the most deprived areas of Scotland.

• Community and Voluntary Sectors
• Education Programme
• Health Promoting Health Service
• Local Government
• Anticipatory Care

Life Stages

Adopting a life stages approach enables health improvement initiatives and resources to be targeted at priority population groups with similar health needs.

A major part of Health Scotland’s work over the three-year period from 2006 will focus predominantly, but not exclusively, on three life stages: Early Years, Young People, and Adults, particularly those in later life.

• Early Years
• Young People
• Healthy Working Lives
• Healthy Ageing