Women's health plan 2021 to 2024: data landscape review

Accompanies the women’s health plan 2021-2024 final report and sets out a range of publicly available data on the health of women and girls in Scotland.


Footnotes

1. Scottish Government – Women’s Health Plan 2021-2024

2. Life Expectancy in Scotland, 2021-2023 | National Records of Scotland (nrscotland.gov.uk)

3. Healthy Life Expectancy in Scotland, 2019-2021 | National Records of Scotland (nrscotland.gov.uk)

4. Good health is based on how people rate their own health in the annual population survey (APS). The HLE estimates are derived from the good health prevalence rate (calculated from the APS survey data) and deaths and population data, through which the average number of remaining years in good health can be calculated for each age group and geography.

5. Methodology Guide (nrscotland.gov.uk)

6. Scottish Health Survey - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

7. Scottish Health Survey 2022 Main Report Volume 1 (www.gov.scot)

8. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) is a 14-item scale with 5 categories summed to provide a single score to measure mental wellbeing. WEMWBS scores range from 14 to 70, with higher scores indicating greater wellbeing.

9. General Health Questionnaire 12 (GHQ-12) is a standard measure of mental distress and mental ill-health consisting of 12 questions, each one assessing the severity of a mental problem over the past few weeks.

10. The complete CIS-R comprises 14 sections, each covering a type of mental health symptom and asks about presence of symptoms in the week preceding the interview.

11. Scotland’s Census 2022 - Health, disability and unpaid care | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

12. Inpatient census 2022: parts one and two - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

13. Long Acting Reversible Methods of Contraception (LARC) in Scotland - Year ending 31 March 2024 - Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Key Clinical Indicator (KCI) - Publications - Public Health Scotland

14. Dispenser payments and prescription cost analysis - Financial year 2022 to 2023 - Dispenser payments and prescription cost analysis - Publications - Public Health Scotland

15. Teenage pregnancies - Year of conception, ending 31 December 2022 - Teenage pregnancies - Publications - Public Health Scotland

16. Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation is the Scottish Government's standard approach to identify areas of multiple deprivation in Scotland.

17. Termination of pregnancy statistics - Year ending December 2023 - Termination of pregnancy statistics - Publications - Public Health Scotland

18. Births in Scotland - Year ending 31 March 2023 - Births in Scotland - Publications - Public Health Scotland

19. Maternity Care Survey - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

20. Dispenser payments and prescription cost analysis - Financial year 2022 to 2023 - Dispenser payments and prescription cost analysis - Publications - Public Health Scotland

21. Analysis of Endometriosis Service Provision in Scotland - Final_0.pdf (endometriosis-uk.org)

22. Laparoscopy is a type of keyhole surgery used to diagnose and treat conditions. The majority of endometriosis patients are diagnosed via laparoscopic surgery, there is not currently a non-surgical route to a definitive diagnosis.

23. Scottish Burden of Disease (shinyapps.io)

24. DALYs for a disease or health condition are the sum of the years of life lost due to premature mortality (YLLs) and the years lived with a disability (YLDs) due to prevalent cases of the disease or health condition in a population. 1 DALY represents the loss of 1 year in full health.

25. Scottish heart disease statistics - Year ending 31 March 2023 - Scottish heart disease statistics - Publications - Public Health Scotland

26. Supporting documents - The Scottish Health Survey 2022 – volume 1: main report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

27. Scottish Burden of Disease (shinyapps.io)

28. The Scottish Health Survey 2022 – volume 1: main report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

29. Cancer incidence in Scotland - to December 2021 - Cancer incidence in Scotland - Publications - Public Health Scotland

30. Scottish breast screening programme statistics - Annual update to 31 March 2023 - Scottish breast screening programme statistics - Publications - Public Health Scotland

31. Invasive cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the layer of tissue in which it developed and is growing into surrounding, healthy tissues. The invasive cancer detection rate is a measure of effectiveness of the screening process.

32. Cancer incidence in Scotland - to December 2021 - Cancer incidence in Scotland - Publications - Public Health Scotland

33. Scottish cervical screening programme statistics - Annual update to 31 March 2022 - Scottish cervical screening programme statistics - Publications - Public Health Scotland

34. Supporting documents - The Scottish Health Survey 2022 – volume 1: main report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

35. For adults - at least 150 minutes of moderately intense physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week or an equivalent combination of both. For those aged 5 to 18 years - an average minimum of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity per day. UK Chief Medical Officers' physical activity guidelines communications framework - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

36. Scottish Health Survey 2022 Main Report Volume 1 (www.gov.scot)

37. The Scottish Health Survey 2022 – volume 1: main report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

38. The Scottish Health Survey 2022 – volume 1: main report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

39. Health and Care Experience Survey - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

40. Respondents were asked to choose from excellent, good, fair, poor and very poor.

41. Stage of treatment waiting times - Inpatients, day cases and new outpatients quarter ending 30 June 2024 - NHS waiting times - stage of treatment - Publications - Public Health Scotland

42. Treatment Time Guarantee (TFF) – Following the decision to treat, all eligible patients should wait no longer than 12 weeks for treatment as an inpatient or day case.

43. Scottish Health Survey 2022 Main Report Volume 1 (www.gov.scot)

44. Scotland’s Census 2022 - Health, disability and unpaid care | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

45. General Practice Workforce Survey 2023 | Turas Data Intelligence (nhs.scot)

46. Primary Care Out of Hours Workforce Survey 2023 | Turas Data Intelligence (nhs.scot)

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