ABSTRACT
Glasgow is Scotland’s most populous city, with nearly 600,000 people. It covers an area of 68 square miles, and is located along the north and south banks of the River Clyde in West Central Scotland. [Figure 1] Since World War II (WWII) it has become one of the quintessential examples of a post-industrial city whose fortunes suffered a sharp decline and many of whose peoples’ lives epitomize the tragedies of the “dependency culture” of the modern welfare state, rapid deindustrialization, urban blight, multi-generational worklessness, hopelessness, and random violence, some of which was instigated by faulty policies at the national level (such as those pertaining to trade labor unions, deindustrialization, and rapid slum clearances). Although the city began to turn itself around economically in the 1980s, these negative perceptions and realities remain an influence on the health status of its residents.
