Population Health Directorate
What we do
We seek to achieve the best health and care outcomes for people by helping them improve their mental and physical health.
We are responsible for:
- providing policy advice to ministers
- supporting mental health services
- social care and support services
- ensuring patients' rights are upheld and enabling people to have a say in decisions on health and social care
- measures to tackle Scotland's relationship with alcohol, smoking and diet
- health protection services, disease surveillance and outbreak management, immunisation and screening programmes
- physical activity and promoting opportunities that have a positive impact on people's health and wellbeing
- building a high quality evidence base for health and social care in Scotland
Who we are
Cabinet Secretary and Ministers
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Maree Todd MSP
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Kevin Stewart MSP
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Humza Yousaf MSP
Management
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Michael Kellet
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