Equally Well: The Importance of Place

As Chair of the Healthy Environmnet Network, I chaired the Annual Network meeting in Stirling yesterday (4th FeB).  The title was Equally Well: The Importance of Place.  I gave the initial talk on policy context and used it to make explicit, the links bewteen Equally Well (Scottish Government policy announcement on tackling ineqialities in health).Good Places Better Health and where EDPHIS fits in.  Salim gave a good talk on EDPHiS and engendered I believe, quite a lot of interest.  In thanking Salim, I emphasied the unique nature of the relatioonship between policy and research and the fasct that EDPHiS and GPBH were highly relevant to inequalities and health and hence highly relevent to Equally Well.  GPBH and EDPHiS do however have ob jectives beyong the inequalities agenda and similarlt Equally Well has many dimensions which don't specifically relate to environment.

Sally McIntyre  gave an excellent talk on evidence and evaluation pointing to the fact that that the evidence around many interventions to secure equality is thin and needs to be developed.  She said this applies also to environmental interventions.

A very good day with productive workshops on environment and ineqiualities in the afternoon with a range of stakeholders. W alsoe had a very strong endorsement from Robert Howe (S.Lanarkshire Council for the DPSEEA workshiop on WellBeing which many of us attended in November.

 Information on the day will be available in due course through HEN.  It's probably best to contact Sheila Beck at Health Scotland re this.