Publications

'Briefing paper' publications:

• Briefing Paper 12: Regeneration and mental wellbeing

  1 April 2011

  This briefing paper looks at the contribution of regeneration to mental wellbeing in deprived areas.

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• Briefing Paper 11: High-rise living within social rented housing areas

  1 April 2011

  This paper investigates the differences in residential, social and psychosocial outcomes between people living in high-rise flats and people living in other types of flats or houses.

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• Briefing paper 10: Neighbourhood amenities and health behaviours

  2 August 2010

  This briefing paper focuses on the impact of the neighbourhood environment on drinking, smoking and eating behaviours, levels of physical activity undertaken and mental health and wellbeing.

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• Briefing Paper 9: Evaluation of GHA's Youth Diversionary Programme

  2 July 2010

  To assist with funding decisions in this area and to build an evidence base, GHA commissioned an evaluation of a selection of its youth diversionary programmes in 2007. This briefing paper provides a summary of its main findings.

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• Briefing Paper 8: Who says teenagers are a serious problem?

  1 February 2010

  This paper outlines GoWell's findings on householder perceptions of youth related problems in deprived areas of Glasgow.

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• Briefing Paper 7: Area reputation: Sighthill

  1 February 2010

  This paper presents findings from an examination of newspaper coverage of the Sighthill estate.

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• Briefing Paper 6: Community Engagement in Regeneration Planning

  1 May 2009

  This paper explores community engagement in the initial planning of regeneration in Glasgow.

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• Briefing Paper 5: Regeneration's impact on health

  1 May 2009

  This briefing paper describes a study undertaken as part of GoWell to clarify the elements of regeneration, how these are realised on the ground, and views about how they might result in changes in the health of the residents of areas undergoing regenerat

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• Briefing Paper 1: Health, Wellbeing and Deprivation in the Study Areas

  1 January 2009

  This paper provides a summary of two complementary reports aimed at assessing the health and wellbeing status of each of the GoWell study areas prior to regeneration.

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• Briefing Paper 3: Asylum Seekers and Refugees

  1 April 2008

  This paper looks at asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow's Regeneration Areas (2006-07) who have been accommodated in the city of Glasgow since 1999, under contractual arrangements with the UK Home Office dispersal programme.

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