Climate Resilient, Healthy and Equitable Places - joint briefing
The Adaptation Scotland programme worked with Public Health Scotland (PHS) and the Improvement Service to develop this introductory briefing on working together to build climate-resilient, healthy and equitable places.
It sets out how our changing climate can affect health and health inequalities both directly, and indirectly through impacts on housing, transport, and access to goods and services, which are the building blocks of good health.
The briefing discusses what can be done to take a preventative approach to building climate resilience at a local level in a way that also benefits health. It starts with understanding how the challenges are interconnected, adopting a whole system approach and working together to identify actions that address the underlying causes and includes a range of tools and case studies to support this.
The Adaptation Scotland programme provides advice and support to help organisations, businesses and communities prepare for, and build resilience to climate change impacts.
The Improvement Service provides improvement support to help Scottish councils provide effective community leadership, strong local governance and deliver high quality, efficient local services.
Public Health Scotland (PHS) is an NHS Board and the lead national body for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of all of Scotland’s people.