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ScotPHO is led by Public Health Scotland

The lead national agency for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of all of Scotland’s people.

A guide to our website

A brief guide on how to make the best use of the ScotPHO website.

ScotPHO Profiles

Interactive graphs and reports of health and wellbeing in your local area.

Scottish Burden of Disease study

New analysis which shows the extent to which different diseases affect Scotland’s health and life expectancy.

ScotPHO reports and papers

Browse our growing library of reports and papers published by the ScotPHO collaboration.

Register for ScotPHO news and updates

Get updates from the Scottish Public Health Observatory direct to your inbox.

The Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) collaboration is led by Public Health Scotland, Scotland’s new national public health body which launched on 1st April 2020. It also includes the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, National Records of Scotland and the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory. See how to make best use of the ScotPHO website.

Important notice: Updates to the ScotPHO website are currently paused while we undertake a review of the content, structure and hosting of the website. See our Website Notice for further details. Updates to the ScotPHO online profiles tool will continue as normal.