Kirsty Mackay pictured with her parents in Maryhill, 1971. This was the first place I lived. It was a victorian tenement flat called a 'room and kitchen'. We had this room and one other. The toilet was on the landing shared with the neighbours.

Drumchapel looking across the now empty streets where council housing once stood.

Debbie with her new born baby, Anderston.

Heather stands in her kitchen. "I've had mental health problems since I was 17. It's been recorded with the doctor. So when I was young I didn't treat myself well'.

The view from a victorian tenement in Govanhill.

Liz lost her partner Andy to suicide in 2015, and is pictured here wearing his jacket. "He died about a week before his 28th birthday. If he'd have had professional help things could have been a lot different. I think there is help out there, but its very hard to access".

In Glasgow premature mortality is 30% higher than in English Cities.

Debbie's newborn baby asleep in the Scottish baby box, which provides a safe place to sleep and comes full of baby essentials. Th box was introduced by the Scottish government in 2017 to take infant poverty rates and is designed to give each child born in Scotland ' the best start in life'.

Taylor age 7, stands in her grandmother's close in Easterhouse.

Billy age 19 lies on the ground where council housing once stood, Easterhouse.

Ellen, 51, Easterhouse.

A young man shows off his 'carry out' outside Drumchapel shopping centre.

The view from the high rise flats in Castlemilk, looking over Glasgow.

A balloon release for Declan McNicol, 18, who was found dead in his flat by his partner Amy.

Kaitlin, 23, at home in Springburn. "I've been diagnosed with a chronic illness, been through two blocks of therapy, left uni, started a new job. I feel it in my bones good things are going to happen for me soon. I am powerful amazing and ready".

Abby and Chris, Govanhill. Research on the 'blue zones', those areas with the highest life expectancy, attributes human connections as the second most important factor contributing to a long and healthy life.

Kids at the Women Against Capitalism event in Castlemilk. Researchers found social integration to be the most important signifier of life expectancy.

Wee John on the border between Drumchapel and Baersen, where life expectancy for men varies my 16 years depending on which side of the divide you live.

Kirsty Mackay with her parents, 1971. We lost my dad to Cancer in 2011. He was 62.