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  • Smoking and Health in Scotland: key stats

    smoking_infographic2Today we’re launching our hot-off-the-press infographic about Smoking and Health in Scotland.  In collaboration with Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Scotland we’ve created this summary of some of the key statistics on smoking and health in Scotland, featuring some headline results from our own research.  Please use and circulate widely! (more…)

  • Scottish (Managed) Sustainable Health Network (SMaSH) – Annual Event (2015)

    This year SMaSH is holding its annual event jointly with us at CRESH. This free event is on the 26 March 2015 at the CoSLA Conference Centre, Verity House, Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh. The  programme is below for your information and if you would like to register to attend please follow the link below to the online registration page. Please disseminate the details to anyone you think may be interested. (more…)

  • CRESH goes Stateside: International Medical Geography Symposium 2013

    by Helena Tunstall, Catherine Tisch and Anna Kenyon

    The 15th International Medical Geography Symposium, the biggest international academic health geography conference, took place July 7-12 this year, at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, USA. This conference is always a fun, friendly and inspirational meeting: a real CRESH highlight. This time we were represented by Helena Tunstall (presenting on ‘triple jeopardy’ in England and impacts of internal migration on health inequalities in UK), Anna Kenyon (presenting on walkability measures and walking outcomes in Scotland) and Catherine Tisch (presenting on tobacco environments and adolescent smoking behaviours in Scotland).  Abstracts for these talks can be found in the program, but watch this space for news of forthcoming publications on these topics. In this short blog post we note some thoughts arising from the conference.    (more…)

  • The Built Environment and Habitual Physical Activity: CRESH Seminar by Takemi Sugiyama

    Title: The Built Environment and Habitual Physical Activity
    Presenter: Takemi Sugiyama
    Date: Tuesday 28th May 2013
    Time: 1200 – 1300 hrs
    Venue: Old Library, Institute of Geography, Drummond Street, EH8 9XP.

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  • CRESH at ESRC festival of social science

    Rich Mitchell will be giving a talk about green space and public health on Monday 31st October. He’s talking at an event in Aberdeen as part of the ESRC’s festival of social science. The event is called Scotland’s trees: creativity and well-being connections and you can find more details here

  • Smoking Symposium at Durham University

    Prof Jamie Pearce was an invited commentator at the inugural symposium of the Smoking Interest Group at Durham University’s Centre for Medical Humanities. This one day workshop, led by Professor Jane Macnaughton and Dr Andrew Russell established a fascinating dialogue between policy makers, practitioners and social science researchers with an interest in smoking and tobacco. The event is likely to lead to a number of new and exciting research collabrations in the field of tobacco control.

  • Visit by team of Russian researchers

    A team of researchers from Perm State University in Russia spent two weeks visiting CRESH. Dr Elena Plotnikova, Dr Igor Germanov and Dr Nadezhda Borisova met with CRESH staff to discuss exciting new possibilities for research collaborations in the area of alcohol and environment research.

  • Collaboration with University of Porto, Portugal

    Rich Mitchell has a new collaboration with  the Faculty of Medicine of Porto University. Prof Maria de Fatima de Pina has a new PhD student there who will be working on mortality, morbidity and health status of the elderly across Portuguese regions. The student, Ana Ribeiro will visit CRESH in 2012.

     

  • Forthcoming symposium: Mental Health and the Environment

    CRESH are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary symposium to be held at the University of Edinburgh on 31st March 2011. The event is being organised with the University’s Human Geography Research Group, in the School of GeoSciences.

    It is well recognised that mental health and illness are significant causes of human disability and impairment. Academic researchers and policy makers are increasingly concerned with the relationship between the environment and various mental health related outcomes. It is acknowledged that risk and resilience to mental illness and distress is a strongly linked to characteristics of the environments in which we live, work and play. This symposium will draw on work from a number of fields to consider the role of the physical, social, built and healthcare environments in understanding human mental health and wellbeing. This interdisciplinary symposium will be of interest to policy makers, students and academic researchers working in the field of mental health and wellbeing.

    Confirmed speakers:
    Professor Sarah Curtis, Durham University
    Dr Anne Ellaway, MRC Glasgow.
    Professor Christine Milligan, Lancaster University
    Prof Richard Mitchell, University of Glasgow
    Dr Liz Twigg, University of Portsmouth

    The programme of talks for the day is available here.

    Date: 31st March 2011
    Time: 1000 to 1800 hrs
    Venue: Edinburgh

     

    Please sign up before 28th February 2011 by contacting:

    Anna Kenyon (A.Kenyon@sms.ed.ac.uk)

  • CRESH work presented at national statistics event

    Elizabeth Richardson presented our regional-level environmental deprivation work to the ScotStat Small Area Statistics event on 5th October 2010.  The programme of talks can be found here, along with links to the talks: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/sns/SNSEve/051010SmallAreaStatistics

    She gave a talk entitled “Multiple Environmental Deprivation in South Lanarkshire: Does It Influence Health?” which can be found here: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/sns/SNSEve/051010MultipleEnvDep

    The event provided a useful overview of small area statistics in Scotland, including the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, the Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics web portal and a range of interesting talks from other users of the data such as ourselves.  Useful links were made with ScotStat, the Scottish Government, NHS Scotland and other users.  A key part of the day was a consultation on potential changes to Scotland’s key small area geography: the data zone.  The process involves trading off the advantages of maintaining comparable populations between the areas but also keeping the area boundaries consistent through time.