GGC - Education Health and Wellbeing
Health Improvement is about making people and communities healthier. We do this by promoting healthy choices and tackling issues that affect people’s health.
Improving health outcomes and ensuring a healthy start for children and families is a key priority both nationally and for Glasgow City HSCP.
Early childhood experiences play a crucial role in shaping long-term health, wellbeing, educational attainment, and outcomes in later life. Influential factors include access to greenspace, the extent of parental support, opportunities for play and physical activity, exposure to parental stress, neglect or abuse, and the level of parental interaction during the early years.
View the Early Years Health Priorities and Resources on the HWB Website by clicking here 
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Further information regarding early years is available on the Public Health Scotland website. Click here to access it.
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.
Health Improvement Teams 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 covering the North East, North West, and South localities. Each team has staff who focus on reducing health inequalities for children, young people and families.
You can find out more about our recent work in the Glasgow City Health Improvement Annual Report (2023/24) and in the Glasgow City Child and Youth Health Improvement Annual Report (2024/25).
You can also read about our priorities and outcomes in the Glasgow City Health Improvement Strategic Direction Report (2023-2028).
