About HWB

This section gives an overview of the App, including its aims and content. It covers Health Improvement and Health Inequalities, provides age and stage information, and links to useful websites.  The home page is divided into 3 sections  

• Health Topics and Resources: This section offers information on key health topics and shares quality-assured curricular resources.
• Learning Opportunities (CPD): Access health and wellbeing CPD opportunities for Education staff here.  
• Useful Contacts: Find useful contacts and signposting

Layout

The App is laid out in six sections. A brief description of each section is below:

• About HWB provides an overview of the App including aims and content. This section summarises Health Improvement and Health Inequalities, has age and stage information and links to useful websites.

• Health Priorities and Resources provides information on key health priorities as well as quality assured curricular resources and other useful resources. Curricular resources are clearly marked to highlight those suitable for Early Years, Primary and/ or Secondary stages. 

• CPD enables access to health and wellbeing CPD opportunities for Education staff.

• Glasgow City Schools Health & Wellbeing Survey provides information about this Secondary School survey and links to read the reports.

• Useful Contacts provides information and links for useful directories and relevant health services.

• Accessibility and Feedback provides important information such as the privacy statement and the feedback form.

External Websites

Throughout the App there are links to external websites where resources or further information can be found. Please note that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are not responsible for the content provided on these external websites. You will see this icon  where there are links to external content. 

Search Function

At the top right hand corner of the screen there is a search function where you can search the App/website for content.

Health Improvement is about making people and communities healthier. We do this by promoting healthy choices and tackling issues like poverty that affect health. We work with many partners to influence policies, services, and the environment to improve health outcomes, especially for those who need it most in Glasgow.  

In Glasgow City, there are three Health Improvement Teams: North East, North West, and South. Each team has staff who focus on early years and young people. 

Click here to find out more about our work by reading the most recent Glasgow City Health Improvement Annual Report (2023/24).

Click here to read more about our priorities and outcomes in the Glasgow City Health Improvement Strategic Direction Report (2023-2028)  

Improving health outcomes and fostering a healthy start for children and families is a priority both at a national level and for Glasgow City HSCP.

Many childhood experiences can impact on health and wellbeing, educational attainment, and future life chances. Examples include:

• Access to greenspace.

• The extent of parental support.

• Play and physical activity opportunities.

• Exposure to parental stress, neglect and abuse.

• The level of parental interaction during the early years.

View the Early Years health priorities and resources on the HWB Website by clicking here . 

Further information regarding early years is available on the Public Health Scotland website. Click here to access it.

Improving health outcomes and fostering a healthy start for children and families is a priority both at a national level and for Glasgow City HSCP.

Children’s early life experiences and the social circumstances in which they live strongly influence their outcomes in later life.

Young people can experience a wide range of changes throughout adolescence including cognitive, biological and emotional changes. Adolescence is an important life stage for forming health related attitudes and behaviours, which can be shaped by peers, family, school and social networks.

Development can be shaped by various environmental, psychosocial and behavioural risk and protective factors.

Environmental factors can include access to and quality of goods and services. Psychosocial factors can include levels of play and family connectedness. Behavioural factors could include diet and physical activity.

These risk and protective factors are not evenly distributed in society. The lower a family’s socioeconomic status, the more likely it is for children to experience risk factors and the less likely it is they experience protective factors.

View the health priorities and resources for children and young people on the HWB Website by clicking here . 

Further information regarding children and health is available on the Public Health Scotland website. Click here   to access it.