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12 June 2025
Health Inequalities CPG DRAFT Minutes 4 June 2025
Dr David Meir, University of the West of Scotland and Dr David Scott, Abertay University Topic: Getting the Inactive Active – Tackling Barriers to Physical Activity This presentation explored the deep-rooted social, economic, and cultural barriers that continue to limit participation in physical activity across Scotland.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 May 2024
Sport in Scotland: An Overview of Legislation, Governance, Policy and Funding - Scottish Government - A More Active Scotland
Scottish Government - A More Active Scotland
Scotland's Physical Activity Delivery Plan – A More Active Scotland – outlines the vision of:
A Scotland where more people are more active, more often.
Last updated:
20 December 2023
Scottish labour market
In this section we will look inactivity rates by sex and age to get an idea where the differences are in Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2017
Sport for Everyone
It cannot all be focused on getting the inactive people active; it needs also to be about how we can make sure that people who are currently active stay active.
Committee reports
Date published:
29 March 2018
Report on petition PE1463: Effective thyroid and adrenal testing, diagnosis and treatment (revised on 20 July 2018 to update glossary) - Introduction
It is about the hormone that comes from the thyroid gland that becomes inactive…the condition we are talking about today [is] a conversion failure of the inactive T4 thyroid hormone to cross over into the active T3 hormone.iPublic Petitions Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2017
Sport for Everyone - jogscotland
This programme successfully encouraging a cohort of inactive people to become more active and at the same time helped reduce health inequalities by encouraging more women to participate in physical activity.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and their potential policy solutions - Poverty and economic inequality
Further to this, 57% of people in the most deprived areas of Scotland meet the recommendations for MVPA with 31% having very low activity. When looking at the least deprived areas, 73% of people are meeting the recommendations and only 13% have very low activity1Scottish Government. (2022, November 8).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 September 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and potential policy solutions - Recommendations for Future Policy Enactment & Development
The recommendations are specific to supporting the realisation of the Physical Activity and Health Framework. Part 2 focuses on the long term in relation to policy development.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and their potential policy solutions - Review aims and objectives
A case for ‘Collective Physical Activity’: moving towards post-capitalist futures.
Last updated:
20 December 2023
Summary of responses to the call for views
In terms of long-term sickness, there are around 1000 fewer people economically inactive for this reason. So it would seem based on the data that economic activity and long-term sickness have both reduced in Stirling and across Scotland since the beginning of the pandemic.
