• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • Articles
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contribute
  • Contact

Sceptical Scot

Asking Questions. Seeking Answers.

You are here: Home / Archives for health

health

A kind of healing: poetry for endings and beginnings

September 29, 2021 by Fay Young 2 Comments

Winter-flowering spikes of Witch Hasel, yellow against a blue sky: photo Fay Young

How and when do you mark the passing of a pandemic which is not yet done? Politicians stumble, their messages swaying between promises of better days ahead and threats of worse to come. Can poets help us?

Not so sage experts

May 17, 2020 by Hugh Pennington 4 Comments

‘But the more we study COVID-19 the more the differences with influenza become evident. However, public pronouncements still take their cue from that virus, like the need to avoid a second wave that will swamp the NHS…time to stop using ‘flu as a useful model…’

Statistics in an age of deference: Covid19 strategy fails true grit test

April 4, 2020 by James Urquhart 6 Comments

Hand holding blood sample: CC BY 2.0 Marco Verch is a Professional Photographer and Speaker from Cologne.

“The Brotherston Principle demands that Government fully respects its expert advisors, it also demands of those advisers that they draw on the best expertise, work together to achieve a best consensus, and speak out strongly if the Government chooses a course of action which flies in the face of reason or squanders precious resource of time or people on justifying failure,” writes a senior medical statistician.

Opioids: unintended consequences of a good policy

September 14, 2018 by Liz Aston and Andrew McAuley Leave a Comment

‘Ensuring that police practices reduce, rather than exacerbate, harms to drug users is an important part of that. Policing is part of the picture; now more than ever, collective action can help reduce drug-related deaths.’

Spuds you should like

August 23, 2018 by Hazel Flight Leave a Comment

But with rises in obesity, we become obsessed with following the latest diet craze – where usually at least one of the main nutrient groups are significantly decreased or eliminated. As part of this, potatoes have become taboo.

Poverty Safari: growing up with ACEs and toxic stress

February 5, 2018 by Carol Craig 1 Comment

‘(McGarvey’s) aware that many on the left will see this as a cop out but he’s ready with his reply. Of course, the left must continue to argue and campaign for structural change, he tells us, but no real change can happen unless poor people begin to feel powerful in their own lives.

Adverse childhood, austerity and personal responsibility

February 1, 2018 by Tony O'Donnell Leave a Comment

‘Carol Craig has seen and shown how the child is father to the adult, identifying the childhood stresses that result in lifelong damage. But without substantial easing of the economic tensions that strain a household to breaking point, the requisite change isn’t coming any day soon’.

Class, alcohol, drugs and adverse childhood experiences in Scotland

January 14, 2018 by Carol Craig Leave a Comment

‘The success of Resilience in Scotland has not just taken the tour’s organisers by surprise. As no other country has engaged with the film in the way that Scotland has the filmmakers are also intrigued. It’s certainly worth trying to understand why the film has such resonance for us.  Resilience is a great educational resource and is opening many Scots eyes to the source of our health problems and what has literally been ‘hiding in plain sight’.

NHS Scotland should look to EU for funding models

January 12, 2018 by David Gow 2 Comments

‘But this is the sad truth about a would-be full European state: its references/comparisons on health issues (as at the opening First Minister’s Question Time of 2018) are always to/with England. In some cases, it borders on an obsession. At the very least, we should rather investigate how EU member states perform and what we can learn from them.’

That jiggery-pokery thing called life: a poem for new year

January 11, 2018 by Fay Young Leave a Comment

Two seagulls, male and female? Image by Justin Phillips CC by 2.0

‘Revisiting the collection now, it carries a comforting message in a winter of rampaging flu, overcrowded hospitals, and political uncertainty about how to heal the health service. Love, life, birth and death – the great levellers.  We are all ‘common, one of the flock’. (Happy new year!).’

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

About Sceptical Scot

Welcome to Sceptical Scot, Scotland’s premier non-tribal forum for passionate, informed debate. Sceptical Scot is for all who care about Scotland’s future, regardless of how they vote: for party, independence or union, EU or Brexit. We aim to provide an arena that is both broader and deeper than current online/print offers with a rich diet of well-researched, polemical, thought-provoking writing. Read more » about About Sceptical Scot

What’s new on Sceptical Scot

  • Can Scotland enjoy a ‘velvet divorce’ from UK? January 11, 2023
  • Should Wales leave the UK? December 16, 2022
  • Swinney should use his fiscal powers to the full: Update December 12, 2022
  • The SNP’s new fundamentalism December 6, 2022
  • A voluntary union with no exit? November 25, 2022
  • Unhelpful clarifications on #indyref2 November 24, 2022
  • It’s time to talk to the neighbours November 21, 2022
  • A monetary straitjacket: Scottish Government economic plan for independence November 3, 2022
  • Can muscular unionism save the Union? November 3, 2022
  • The left must abandon high tax policies October 25, 2022

The Sceptical Newsletter

The Sceptical Scot cartoon

A small ship, hopelessly at sea

Categories

  • Articles (656)
  • Blog (534)
  • Books & Poetry (26)
  • Brexit (204)
  • climate crisis (27)
  • climate crisis (5)
  • Covid19 (65)
  • Criminal justice (17)
  • Culture (303)
  • Devo20 (1)
  • Economics (189)
  • Economy (104)
  • Education (75)
  • Elections (187)
  • Environment (65)
  • European Union (256)
  • Featured (41)
  • Federalism (17)
  • federalism (13)
  • Health (63)
  • History (68)
  • Housing (23)
  • Humour (10)
  • identity (13)
  • Independence (272)
  • Inequality (76)
  • International (34)
  • Ireland (7)
  • Ireland (6)
  • Local government (81)
  • Longer reads (71)
  • Media (9)
  • Podcast (3)
  • Poetry (72)
  • Policy (211)
  • Politics (332)
  • Polls and quizzes (1)
  • Reviews (24)
  • Social democracy (84)
  • Trump (10)
  • UK (338)
  • Uncategorized (6)

Sceptical Scot elsewhere

Facebook
Twitter

Footer

About Sceptical Scot

Since 2014 Sceptical Scot has offered a non-tribal forum for passionate, informed debate for all who care about Scotland’s future

Recommended

  • Bella Caledonia
  • Centre on Constitutional Change
  • The UK in a Changing Europe
  • Common Space
  • Gerry Hassan
  • Scottish Review
  • Social Europe
  • Think Scotland

Archives

Copyright © 2023 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in