{"id":7084,"date":"2014-01-24T19:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2014-01-24T19:02:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:02:42","slug":"befs-inaugural-annual-lecture-health-and-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7084","title":{"rendered":"BEFS: Inaugural annual lecture: health and place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The speaker for the inaugural annual lecture of Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) on the 24 February in Edinburgh, is Scotland\u2019s Chief Medical Officer, Sir Harry Burns, who will speak about health and the built environment, with free entry but booking required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEFS writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>The Chief Medical Officer is the Scottish Government&#8217;s principal medical adviser and is also Head of the Scottish Medical Civil Service. The post covers every aspect of health in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Harry is keen to encourage the \u2018assets-based\u2019 approach to people&#8217;s health which focuses on behaviours and influences and also the social factors that impact people&#8217;s health and wellbeing, especially in their early lives.<\/p>\n<p>He took up post as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland in September 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Entry is free but\u00a0booking is required via <a href=\"mailto:info@befs.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">info@befs.org.uk<\/a> or 0131 220 6241.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEFS Annual Lecture<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befs.org.uk\/calendar\/48\/164-BEFS-Annual-Lecture\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The speaker for the inaugural annual lecture of Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) on the 24 February in Edinburgh, is Scotland\u2019s Chief Medical Officer, Sir Harry Burns, who will speak about health and the built environment, with free entry but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7085,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions\/7085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}