Health Scotland was set up on the 1 April 2003 as a Special Health Board in NHS Scotland. We work at national level to support organisations, policy-makers, communities and individuals to take action to improve health and reduce health inequalities across Scotland. Our strategic objectives are to:

• advance the understanding of Scotland's health and how to improve it
• provide timely evidence-based inputs into health improvement policy and planning
• increase competence and capacity to deliver on health improvement programmes
• improve the quality of strategies to disseminate evidence, learning and good practice