A new £1.1M research aims to address health inequalities within the Roma community across the UK, and will work with Community Renewal’s Rom Romeha (For Roma By Roma) group in Govanhill.

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.

How a community-led health project in London is transforming children’s health in one of the capital’s most diverse communities — and what lessons could be learned by Scotland.

In Episode Three of our new podcast we have co-launched with The Ferret, we turn our attention to the mental wellbeing of young and middle aged men, another issue driving health inequalities in Scotland.

In Episode Two of our new podcast we have co-launched with The Ferret, we look at drug deaths, one of the key factors driving Scottish health inequalities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Forragear e permanecer conectado à natureza pode nos ajudar a melhorar nosso bem-estar físico e mental. Rhys Delany juntou-se a um dos muitos passeios de forrageamento oferecidos ao redor do Southside para descobrir mais.

Foraging staying connected to nature can help us improve both our mental and physical wellbeing. Rhys Delany joined one of the many foraging walks offered around the Southside to find out more.

Cervical screenings in Govanhill are low among certain groups of women. As part of our Mind The Health Gap series, we explored why this is the case and what is being done to increase the uptake of cervical screenings in the community.

What difference does it make to provide free technology and data to those who experience inequality? Community reporter Bonnie Thomson spoke to organisations involved in delivery to find out.

The Status of Young Women in Scotland Report 2022-2023 provides much needed research on issues affecting women and people of marginalised genders in the healthcare system. Samar Jamal reports in the findings.

After a six week pilot, the Scottish Child Law Centre is now seeking funding to find a permanent home in the area to offer legal advice to children and families.

Mind the Health Gap is a year-long project between Greater Govanhill and The Ferret, a Scotland-wide investigations media co-op. In the first of the series, Karin Goodwin met with energy advisors from South Seeds.

The Ferret and Greater Govanhill magazine have teamed up to examine responses to health inequalities as part of a new collaborative project – Mind the Health Gap.

Mind the Health Gap is a year-long project between Greater Govanhill and The Ferret, a Scotland-wide investigations media co-op. Working together with community members in Govanhill, we will examine the way inequality leads to poor health and shorter lives, and our stories will focus on responses to the problems we find.