Equally Well Leadership for Change

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Equally Well Leadership for Change

• Kay Barton
• Scottish Government

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We have made tackling health inequalities our
top priority

• Nicola Sturgeon
• Cabinet Secretary for Health Wellbeing

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Upstream/downstream reducing inequalities in
health depends on reducing inequalities in life
chances and life circumstances
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Equally Well recommendations

• Support for families and young people
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Poverty and employment
• Physical environments
• Alcohol, drugs, violence

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Equally Well Test Sites

• Eight Test Sites
• East Lothian - looking at health inequalities in
  early years in Prestonpans, Musselburgh East and
  Tranent
• Whitecrook, West Dunbartonshire - targeting the
  high prevalence of smoking in the area
• Govanhill, Glasgow - looking at community
  regeneration and development
• Blairgowrie - looking at delivering health
  inequality sensitive services in a rural setting
  for people with multiple and complex needs
• Lanarkshire - focusing on sustained employment
  and barriers to people finding employment
• Fife - focusing on anti-social behaviour in
  relation to alcohol and underage drinking
• Dundee - focusing on methods of improving
  wellbeing
• Glasgow City - looking at integrating health into
  current and future city planning

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Making the Change

• Leadership for a New Direction

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Rule 1 We are All in this Together!
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The Road to Transformation?Source Gareth Morgan
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• The unstoppable momentum that comes when leaders
  and consumers, old hands and newcomers when so
  many start to see things differently.
• Elspeth Murray
• Edinburgh, 30 October 2008