In this CHEX Briefing, we set out actions we think can help eradicate health inequality in Scotland. The actions are based on learning from our work in this area, including from the wider community-led health sector.

In this briefing, we set out how statutory organisations and funders can unravel their old ways of working with and thinking about evidence so that they can make better use of evidence from communities and third sector and community organisations.

What if we applied the same principles behind our response to coronavirus to tackling health inequalities and climate change?

In this CHEX briefing, we make the links between community-led health and climate action and draw your attention to a new Communities Call for Climate Action that we urge all community organisations to sign up to. 

This briefing sets out the basics of public health and public health reform, highlighting that the process so far has put a strong emphasis on community and community-led approaches.

Here we explore how community-led health organisations have a key role to play in the development of social prescribing, acting as a bridge between statutory services and community provision. 

What can community planning, participation requests and community asset transfer do for community-led health?

If we want to have influence over what happens in and to our communities, we need to engage with evidence.

Communities should be supported to be at the forefront of addressing the causes of health inequalities in Scotland.

More than 120 people came together in Glasgow for a day of discussions and workshops around human rights and community-led health.

This page features links to the CHEX archive of publications and resources.

This is an archive of our CHEX-Point newsletter.

Following our case study of the work of Lorn and Oban Healthy Options in a previous edition of CHEX point we are pleased to report that information from their Chair Hugh McLean confirms that they are on a more secure funding footing. 

Fiona Cross, Director at Ripple shares with us the importance of taking every opportunity that comes your way.

Active Communities’ involvement in Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership.

Elspeth Gracey, CHEX Development Manager, offers her reflections from the LGBT Health and Wellbeing’s AGM.

How many of us after hearing an inspirational talk actually go and do something to improve the lives of the people in the community we serve?

A reflection on where we are at in terms of the needs and rights of those of us whose sexuality and gender identity has in the past been deemed shameful and illegal but increasingly walk with pride and embrace the opportunity afforded by the equality of marriage legislation.

In this blog Elspeth Gracey, from the CHEX team, reflects on how we use language to describe Scotland’s biggest health challenge and given what we know about the statistics and research what difference will it make to what we should do?