Mental Health in Focus - a profile of mental health and wellbeing in Greater Glasgow & Clyde 

This report provides a comprehensive description of mental health in GG&C, using over 51 indicators on mental health, wellbeing and related contextual factors. Profiles for the six local authorities are presented, together with the smaller intermediate zones and neighbourhoods. Inequalities in mental health are explored, specifically across area deprivation, age and sex. 

The report is aimed at a variety of audiences including those with geographically-specific, topic-specific and population-specific interests and remits. 

Click here to download the whole report. 

 

You can also download sub-sections of the report - click on the links below for each section.  

 

Section 1 - Executive Summary

Section 3 - Inequalities in Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Section 4 - Inequalities in sex

Section 5 - Inequalities by area deprivation 

Section 6 - Inequalities by age

Section 7 - Local authority profiles

Section 8 - Mental health & wellbeing indicators 

 

Profiles for the intermediate zone and neighbourhoods can be downloaded from the list below. 

 

If you have any queries please contact Deborah Shipton via email.

 

 

 

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Introduction/Background

It is widely recognised that good mental health is not only a significant asset for the individual but is both important and necessary for the successful functioning of communities and populations.

Much progress has been made, nationally, in developing indicators to describe mental health and ill health, and the broader determinants of poor mental health (NHS Health Scotland, Adult Mental Health Indicators). Given the outcomes driven policy environment such information provides a useful tool for policy makers and practitioners.

Although comparable local data exist, often such data are not easily accessible. Bringing together information on mental health, and the broader determinants of mental health, for Greater Glasgow and its sub-geographies, allows local populations to be described and inequalities to be explored.

Aims/Objectives

The aim is to use the national framework of indicators of mental health for adults, developed by NHS Health Scotland, to describe mental health and its determinants in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Specifically, the aim is to:

  • Describe how GG&C, and sub-geographies within, compares across these indicators
  • Describe and explore inequalities across age, sex, time and geography
  • Describe inequalities across vulnerable groups, e.g. prison population (reported separately), ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability (unrealised aim)
  • Draw together the significant learning provided by these data to support policy makers and practitioner in using this information in practice.

The findings will be widely disseminated through a variety of means, including presentations, workshops and publications. 

Project Management

The project is lead by Bruce Whyte (Glasgow Centre for Population Health, GCPH). The project researcher is Deborah Shipton (GCPH). The advisory group includes: Trevor Lakey , Doug Adams, Anne Hawkins (all from GG&C HB Mental Health Partnership), Fiona McNeill (Renfrewshire & Inverclyde Primary Health Care NHS Trust), David McCrae (Mental Health, NW Glasgow CHP), Moira Connolly (Consultant Psychiatrist), John Park (Research Nurse), Pauline Craig (GCPH), Catherine Chiang (Consultant in Public Health Medicine), Lee Davies (ISD Scotland), Frances Paton (Renfrewshire & Inverclyde Primary Health Care NHS Trust), Judith Brown (Observatory of Work and Health), Neil Quinn (University of Strathclyde), Jane Parkinson (NHS Health Scotland), Rebecca Lenagh-Snow (GCPH), Simon Reilly (East Dunbartonshire Council).

Timescales

The project began in December 2010. The data gathering and analysis will conclude by January 2011 and the final report will be circulated in September 2011. Dissemination and workshops will begin after thereafter. 

 

For further information contact Deborah Shipton (Deborah.shipton@glasgow.gov.uk) or Bruce Whyte (Bruce.Whyre@drs.glasgow.gov.uk)