Key Data and Intelligence Resources
Population groups and health issues
Children and young people
NHS Lothian Children, Young People and Families Joint Strategic Needs Assessment NHS Lothian completed in 2025 a joint strategic needs assessment covering the impact of access to the building blocks of health on outcomes for children, young people and families. The report includes deeper dives into needs relating to homelessness; additional support needs and the universal offer of support and opportunities for children, young people and families in the city.
NHS Lothian Children, Young People and Families Joint Strategic Needs Assessment NHS Lothian completed in 2025 a joint strategic needs assessment covering the impact of access to the building blocks of health on outcomes for children, young people and families. The report includes deeper dives into needs relating to homelessness; additional support needs and the universal offer of support and opportunities for children, young people and families in the city.
Youth Link Scotland: Learning from a rights-based approach to tacking school engagement and attendance in Edinburgh
Youth Link Scotland: The Impact of Community Universal Youth Work in Edinburgh
This report showcases finding from a study of the impact of universal youth work in Edinburgh, presenting data and stories from 96 young people participating in youth work services
Youth Link Scotland Learning from a right-based approach
This report sets out qualitative findings from an enquiry conducted into how young people, parents, carers, formal education teams and youth work practitioners can work together to ensure that all young people in Edinburgh can access and enjoy effective learning experiences.
Youth Link Scotland: The Impact of Community Universal Youth Work in Edinburgh
This report showcases finding from a study of the impact of universal youth work in Edinburgh, presenting data and stories from 96 young people participating in youth work services.
Ethnic minority populations
Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership: Health and care needs of people from minority ethnic communities
This report presents a joint strategic needs assessment for those from minority ethnic groups living in Edinburgh, providing an overview of their health and wellbeing and the social, demographic and economic factors that are associated with these outcomes.
This report presents a joint strategic needs assessment for those from minority ethnic groups living in Edinburgh, providing an overview of their health and wellbeing and the social, demographic and economic factors that are associated with these outcomes.
Census 2022 Report: Lothian ethnicity, national identity and religion
NHS Lothian’s Public Health Intelligence Team has produced summaries for each local authority area of 2022 census data – this one focusing on ethnicity, national identity and religion.
NHS Lothian’s Public Health Intelligence Team has produced summaries for each local authority area of 2022 census data – this one focusing on ethnicity, national identity and religion.
Capital City Partnership: Ethnicity and employment in Edinburgh
This report summarises data for the Edinburgh region on rates of poverty, employment and job seekers support by ethnicity.
This report summarises data for the Edinburgh region on rates of poverty, employment and job seekers support by ethnicity.
Disabled people
Census 2022 Report: Lothian health, disability and unpaid care
NHS Lothian’s Public Health Intelligence Team has produced summaries for each local authority area of 2022 census data – this one focusing on self-reported health, disability and caring responsibilities.
NHS Lothian’s Public Health Intelligence Team has produced summaries for each local authority area of 2022 census data – this one focusing on self-reported health, disability and caring responsibilities.
NHS Lothian: Impact of poverty on disabled people
This report provides an overview of the impact of poverty on disabled people, including
the association between disability and the building blocks of health.
This report provides an overview of the impact of poverty on disabled people, including
the association between disability and the building blocks of health.
Sexual orientation and transgender status
Census 2022 Report: Sexual orientation and trans status or history
NHS Lothian’s Public Health Intelligence Team has produced summaries for each local authority area of 2022 census data – this one focusing on sexual orientation and trans status or history.
NHS Lothian’s Public Health Intelligence Team has produced summaries for each local authority area of 2022 census data – this one focusing on sexual orientation and trans status or history.
Carers
Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership: Carers Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
This report presents a joint strategic needs assessment for those with caring responsibilities living in Edinburgh, providing an overview of the number of carers and the number of hours of care provided as well as the perceived impact of caring.
This report presents a joint strategic needs assessment for those with caring responsibilities living in Edinburgh, providing an overview of the number of carers and the number of hours of care provided as well as the perceived impact of caring.
NHS Lothian’s Public Health Intelligence Team has produced summaries for each local authority area of 2022 census data – this one focusing on self-reported health, disability and caring responsibilities.
Health issues
Health issues
This topic paper provides a brief overview of population health in Edinburgh with particular emphasis on inequalities. The paper starts with a brief summary of high-level mortality and life expectancy data then adopts a life course approach and references data to illustrate health and inequalities trends and the way that they impact different age groups.
This paper provides a high-level overview of mental health in Edinburgh, covering a wide range of data related to mental health. It does not dive deeply into any particular issues but provides an introduction to this topic that can be used to inform and guide the commissioning and delivery of wider health, wellbeing and social care services.
This report presents a joint strategic needs assessment, in relation to harms caused by alcohol consumption in Edinburgh and Lothian. It includes information on the alcohol environment; alcohol related behaviours and harms and disease, as well as service usage.
NHS Lothian publishes an annual report each year summarising the number and characteristic of drug related deaths in Edinburgh and Lothian. It includes aggregated, anonymised information on demographics, drugs implicated, and social circumstances at time of death.
This report presents a joint strategic needs assessment on people living with dementia in Edinburgh, providing an overview of the prevalence of dementia as well as estimated and projected number of people with dementia.