Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10147182 | Health & Place | 2018 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Health geographers have been long concerned with understanding how the accessibility of individuals to certain environmental features may influence health and wellbeing. Such insights are increasingly being adopted by policy makers for designing healthy neighbourhoods. To support and inform decision making, there is a need for small area national level data. This paper details the creation of a suite of open access health indicators, including a novel multidimensional index summarising 14 health-related features of neighbourhoods for Great Britain. We find no association of our overall index with physical health measures, but a significant association to mental wellbeing.
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Authors
Mark A. Green, Konstantinos Daras, Alec Davies, Ben Barr, Alex Singleton,