In each Director of Public Health Report, there is an opportunity to look at the health of the population in Fife and topics where there are new emerging pressures. This report takes as its central theme healthy weight and physical activity. It reviews what we know about eating healthily and keeping physically active in Fife. It explores, highlights and celebrates the work and progress of partners and communities to address these issues. It sets out the opportunities to improve health and wellbeing across the population through preventive actions and in particular the potential for place-based approaches to planning and collaborative working to create healthy places and spaces.
I am grateful to my colleagues within our Public Health Department and our colleagues and partners within Health Promotion Service, Fife Health and Social Care Partnership, Fife Council and the third sector for their significant contributions to this report. We are all part of the Fife public health team, and it is good to see examples of this work throughout the report. I hope you enjoy reading it too and that it can stimulate and promote thought and discussion around how we can all work best together to enable ‘healthy eating and active living for everyone’ in Fife.
Dr Joy Tomlinson
