Children and young people: physical health and wellbeing
Data on children and young people’s physical health and wellbeing are available from the following sources:
- ScotPHO pages:
- Pregnancy, births, and maternity pages: infant and neonatal deaths and infant feeding and breastfeeding
- Oral health
- Injuries
- Immunisations
- Obesity
- ScotPHO profiles (national and local level):
- Healthy birth weight
- Live births
- Premature births
- Infant deaths, aged 0-1 years
- Babies exclusively breastfed at 6-8 weeks
- Developmental concerns at 27-30 months
- Immunisation uptake at 24 months: 6 in 1, and MMR
- Unintentional injuries in under 5 year olds
- Child dental health in primary 1 and in primary 7
- Child healthy weight in primary 1
- Children hospitalised due to asthma, aged 0-15 years
- Deaths in children, aged 1-15 years
- Drug-related hospital admissions, aged 11-25 years
- Alcohol-related hospital admissions, aged 11-25 years
- Young people admitted to hospital due to assault, aged 11-25 years
- Routine Public Health Scotland statistics:
- Scottish Government National Performance Framework indicators:
- Child social and physical development: the percentage of children with a concern at their 27-30 month review (as a % of children reviewed).
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.
