Community mental health bulletin, March 2008

The new edition of the Library's Community Mental Health current awareness bulletin has just been distributed. If you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive future issues, contact Catriona Denoon at the Maria Henderson Library.

Updated NHSGGC CHCP community profiles published.

The Glasgow Centre for Population Health has created a new set of community health profiles building on the success of similar health profiles produced by NHS Health Scotland in 2004. The Information and Services Division (ISD) are producing general health and well-being profiles for all CHP / CHCP areas across Scotland but meantime ten community profiles have been constructed, one for each Community Health (and Care) Partnership within the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area. The profiles provide data on over 70 indicators for a range of health outcomes (e.g. life expectancy, mortality, hospitalisation) and health determinants (e.g. smoking levels, breastfeeding, income, employment, crime, education). Data is provided for each neighbourhood /intermediate zone in a community and for the community as a whole. A summary table with definitions and sources for each indicator is also provided at the end of the profile. The Glasgow data and information on the national project is also available at the Scottish Public Health Observatory website.

Easter opening hours

The Maria Henderson Library will be closed on Friday 21st and Monday 24th March for the Easter holidays. We will open again on Tuesday 25th March.

Happy Easter from all the Library staff.

Tobacco smoking in Scotland - new briefing published

The report, "Tobacco smoking in Scotland: an epidemiology briefing", has now been published on the ScotPHO website.
This briefing looks at how tobacco impacts on the population health of Scotland, why people take up smoking and continue to smoke, and what might be done to curb the epidemic. Using the latest available data, it estimates the size of the problem, discusses why it matters, and presents trends in smoking over time. Variation in smoking prevalence within the Scottish population, and international comparisons, are also shown. The briefing then discusses factors that help determine smoking status and details measures that may help tackle the problem. It concludes with some final remarks on the continuing challenge posed by tobacco.
You can access the report at: http://www.scotpho.org.uk/tobaccobriefing

New Books List

The latest new books list is now available, covering items added to stock in January and February 2008.

You can download it here as a MSWord file.