Key Data and Intelligence Resources
Surroundings
Clean air, green space, safe neighbourhoods and healthy retail environments are all important for reducing health inequalities. Information on local people’s satisfaction with the quality and safety of their neighbourhood is included in the Lothian Public Health Survey and Edinburgh Partnership Survey reports above, with some additional sources of information listed below.
Edinburgh Council: Local air quality management information
This site collates resources relevant to air quality management in the city, including links to air quality management reports, maps of air quality management areas (AQMA) and the nitrogen dioxide monitoring network and local air quality strategy.
This site collates resources relevant to air quality management in the city, including links to air quality management reports, maps of air quality management areas (AQMA) and the nitrogen dioxide monitoring network and local air quality strategy.
Edinburgh Council: Open space audit
In 2016, City of Edinburgh Council conducted a survey of the location, size and quality of significant open spaces (such as parks, greenspace, playgrounds, sports facilities and churchyards).
NHS Lothian: Biodiversity audit
NHS Lothian commissioned a biodiversity, climate change and nature-based health benefits assessment of their physical premises, with results summarised visually and full reports on this site.
Scottish Crime and Justice Survey data
The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey was last conducted in 2021/22 in order to understand at national level experiences of, and attitudes towards crime, policing and the justice system.
Scottish Children’s Reporter Data on involvement in the Children’s Hearing System
This dashboard presents data on the number and rate over time of those involved in the children’s hearing system at local authority level, including indicators such as compulsory supervision orders, child protection orders and referrals on grounds of offences.
Police Scotland: Edinburgh City Division Scrutiny Report
Police Scotland’s divisional scrutiny reports provide statistics for the number and type of crimes and information on local policing priorities.
Police Scotland present ward-level data on the nature, location of individual crimes on an annual basis.
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 spaces which impact on health, including hot food takeaways (which typically sell food high in fat, salt or sugar); retailers of tobacco, alcohol, and gambling establishments; and woodlands.