Community Solutions to Health Inequalities: Insights from The Mind The Health Gap Project

This year Greater Govanhill and The Ferret hosted the final Mind The Health Gap event as the year long project comes to a close. We summarised the key insights from the event below.

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Mind the Health Gap Podcast: Why does a good start matter for our children’s health?

In Episode One of our new podcast we have co-launched with The Ferret, we look into the challenges of child and infant health and wellbeing across Scotland and beyond.

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Improving Maternal and Neonatal Health in Bihar

As part of our Mind the Health Gap project, we are exploring solutions to health inequalities beyond our borders. Dyuti Sen writes for Feminism in India about how community education is helping to alleviate maternal mortality rates in Bihar, a rural and densely populated state in East India.

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Peer Support: How Rom Romeha built a community approach to removing barriers

Benjamin Kritikos, exploring why there’s such a pressing need for local solutions powered by the people most affected by them, spoke with people from Community Renewal Trust Rom Romeha (‘For Roma, By Roma’), to find out how they are tackling health inequalities and improving the quality of life for the neighbourhoods Roma community.

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Just How Effective is Scotland's Free Period Product Policy?

Free period products have been part of Scotland’s legislation since 2021 through The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act. Since then, the country has been recognised as a world pioneer in tackling period poverty. Greater Govanhill reporters spoke with community members and organisations to understand more about how this legislation works in practice.

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Growing Through the Cracks

In this budding article, Flora Zajicek talks about all things outdoors. She writes about her personal adoration for the outdoors, what thriving green spaces look like, their impact on our well-being and the self-maintained floral spaces serving communities across the Southside.

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Why People are Turning to Psychedelics to Treat Medical Conditions

Frustrations with waiting lists and a feeling that pharmaceutical medications are failing health needs are leading some people to seek out psychedelic alternative medicines. Jack Howse explores this phenomenon in Scotland from microdosing, to the Scottish Psychedelic Research Group.

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