Key Data and Intelligence Resources

Healthy food needs to be accessible, affordable, and better advertised in order to promote good health and reduce health inequalities. Information on local people’s access to healthy food is included in the Lothian Public Health Survey and Edinburgh Partnership Survey reports above, with some additional sources of information listed below.

Interactive map including density of takeaway and supermarket retailers
The Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health (CRESH) at the University of Edinburgh produce maps down to datazone level visualising the distribution of retail outlets which impact on health, including hot food takeaways (which typically sell food high in fat, salt or sugar) as well as retailers of tobacco, alcohol, and gambling establishments.

Mapping of emergency community food provision in Edinburgh
This report summarises findings from a survey of 38 emergency food providers in Edinburgh including information on the type and location of services.