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I am sure that Rhoda—who, like me, comes from a rural area—knows how much people in those communities support others to get out and about, to get their shopping and to get to appointments.
However, we are frustrated that we are not getting real-time information. We can get some estimates; Bob Irvine may want to comment on that.We try to estimate where things are going.
The submission from Public Health Scotland argued:
A focus on body image created by social media can also make girls and young women feel worse about sport and physical activity. By placing an emphasis on the 'ideal body' or a specific look which is often unobtainable, image-based platforms depict that participation in physical activity is about physical appearance, seldom emphasising the benefits to health.
I am not being flippant, but our patients refuse to do what is expected of them, because they get better when we think that they will get worse and they get worse when we think that they will get better, and then we have to replan, repl...
Furthermore, it has been shown that the vast majority—about 70 per cent—of those who have died by suicide had contact with healthcare services in the year prior to their death. A topic that I get into my speeches at every opportunity is the importance of being active and eating well.