There are 90,000 people living with dementia in Scotland and more than 850,000 across the UK, a figure set to rise to 1 million by 2021. The conditioncoststhe UK economy £26bn a year with over 80 percent of that cost carried by social and informal care. Helen Davies, Head of Publ...
in Scotland and across the UK - yet experts say there is still a clear north-south divide.Another set of figures showed both incidence of and deaths from cancer in Scotland was 15 per cent higher than the UK average.Men in Scotland have the highest premature death rate, with 244 per 100...
There is a lot to learn about the causes and solutions of Scotland's epidemic of drug-related deaths. But we already know some steps that could be taken, as they were recommended by both the UKAdvisory Council on the Misuse of Drugsin 2016, theStaying Alive in Scotlandreport of the same...
Younger age groups used to be the most likely to die, but now it's most common among people in their 40s - the average age of someone dying from drug misuse in Scotland is now 45, having been 32 in 2000. Many of those people will have been coming of age in the late 1990s...
Alcohol Deaths in Scotland at Double UK RateByline: SIMON JOHNSONDaily Mail (London)
In England, the North East had the highest rate of 25.7 deaths per 100,000 while the East Midlands had the lowest at 11.5 deaths per 100,000. Scotland and Northern Ireland continued to have the highest death rate in the UK, with Scotland's rate remaining stable at 22.6 in 2023 and Nort...
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UK heroin deaths prompt international alert.Reports that a type of an infective agent linked to contaminated heroin supplies might have caused the deaths of some of its users in Scotland and Ireland as of June 2000. Status of screening for known causes of infection; Bases for linking the agent...
Epilepsy is a common condition that affects the brain and causes frequent seizures. It is associated with a significant risk of prematuredeath, which can be caused by the epilepsy itself or its complications. Of the 600,000 people with epilepsy in the UK, 60,000 live in Scotland. ...