Bambra, C. and Cairns, J.M. and Kasim, A. and Smith, J. and Robertson, S. and Copeland, A. and Johnson, K. (2015) 'This divided land : an examination of regional inequalities in exposure to brownfield land and the association with morbidity and mortality in England.', Health and place., 34 . pp. 257-269.
Abstract
This paper is the first empirical examination of the association between brownfield land and spatial inequalities in health. Linear mixed modelling of ward-level data suggests that there is higher exposure and susceptibility to brownfield land in the Northern compared to the Southern regions (with the exception of London); that brownfield exposure has an association with regional inequalities in mortality and morbidity within regions (particularly in the North West); that brownfield has an association with inequalities between regions (particularly between the North West and the South East); but that brownfield land only makes a small independent contribution to the North–South health divide in England. However, brownfield land could be a potentially important and previously overlooked independent environmental determinant of spatial inequalities in health in England.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Regeneration, Environment, Deprivation, Neighbourhood, Inequality. |
Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (948Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.05.010 |
Publisher statement: | © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Date accepted: | 19 May 2015 |
Date deposited: | 20 July 2015 |
Date of first online publication: | 20 June 2015 |
Date first made open access: | No date available |
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