Publications
*NEW*
Vital Statistics Scotland 2003 The Gay Men’s Sex Survey, produced by Sigma Research with support from Healthy Gay Scotland
SCOTTISH NHS BOARD OF RESIDENCE DATA REPORT (March 2004)
Positively Employed: an
employer's guide to HIV and other blood-borne viruses
Scottish
Executive
Scottish Executive's Sexual Health
Strategy documentation
Background information on the Strategy and its Consultation
Enhancing Sexual Wellbeing In Scotland: A Sexual Health & Relationship
Strategy - Summary
Shortened version of the full draft strategy,
prepared under the guidance of an expert Reference Group (12/11/2003)
Enhancing Sexual Wellbeing in Scotland: A Sexual Health and
Relationships Strategy: A Consultation Paper
A Sexual Health and Relationships Strategy: A
Consultation Paper (12/11/2003)
Enhancing Sexual Wellbeing in Scotland: A Sexual Health and
Relationships Strategy: Proposal to the Scottish Executive
Consultation on draft sexual health strategy
document (12/11/2003)
Enhancing Sexual Wellbeing In Scotland: A Sexual Health Relationship
Strategy
Supporting Papers (12/11/2003)
Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm's statement and questions launching the
strategy consultation (November 2003)
Drugs Misuse Statistics Scotland 2003
An annual compilation of all the latest available
information on drug misuse drawing from a wide range of national data
sources.
Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS)
2002
Reports on smoking, drinking and drugs use in the
context of other aspects of pupils' lifestyles.
NHSScotland Women & Children's Health (including Sexual Health) -
Teenage Pregnancy 2002
Numbers and rates of pregnancies in young women
under the age of 20 for the period 1991-2002. Figures are shown by age
of conception and relate to deliveries, abortions or miscarriages in
each year.
Improving the Health of the Scottish Minority Ethnic Communities -
Summary
Ethnic Minority Health in Scotland
Improving the Health of the Scottish Minority Ethnic Communities -
Annual Report of the Steering Committee and the Director of the National
Resource Centre for Ethnic Minority Health 2002-2003
Annual report of the National Resource Centre for
Ethnic Minority Health 2002-03
Drug
Education in Schools 2002/2003
Publication of the results of the fourth annual survey on drug education
in schools.
Doctor-patient
communications report
Responsive health service depends on listening to patients - Minister.
Attitudes
to Discrimination in Scotland - Research Findings
The results of the 2002 Scottish Social Attitudes survey on discriminatory
attitudes towards disabled people, women, minority ethnic groups and
gay men and lesbians.
Proposals
for new charity law
Announcement of draft Charity (Scotland) Bill to be published in Spring
2004.
Why Sexual Health Promotion Makes Me Sick
by
Ian Kramer
This article originally appeared in Waverley Care's magazine and is
reprinted here with kind permission from Waverley Care. The article is a
revised version of the George Bath Memorial Lecture, delivered at the
Annual Lothian HIV Seminar in May 2003. Portions of this article are due
for publication in the forthcoming edition of The Neurology of AIDS.
Towards a Healthier Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Scotland
Susan Deacon MSP recently launched 'Towards a Healthier Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual & Transgender Scotland', a programme of work undertaken in
partnership between the Health Department and Stonewall Scotland as part
of the Department's work on equality and diversity. Download the report
by clicking on the link above (pdf, 448kb).
New
standards for England's HIV services published
New
standards for HIV services in England were released today by the Medical
Foundation for AIDS and Sexual Health (MEDFASH).
The
document contains standards for twelve aspects of service provision
in HIV prevention, HIV diagnosis, empowerment of people with HIV,
clinical care, primary healthcare, social care integrated with healthcare,
sexual health care, HIV and pregnancy, care of families with HIV,
emergency care, admission to hospital, respite, rehabilitation and
palliative care. Each standard offers an evidence-based rationale,
key interventions, implications for service planning, guidance on
practice, and suggested audit indicators. Reading lists for supporting
evidence, policy documents and professional guidelines are appended.
(Aidsmap.com)
