This article is part of the supplement: Proceedings of the Joint Environment and Human Health Programme: Annual Science Day Conference and Workshop
Research
Evidence-based selection of environmental factors and datasets for measuring multiple environmental deprivation in epidemiological research
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* Corresponding author: Elizabeth A Richardson e.richardson@ed.ac.uk
1 School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK
2 Section of Public Health and Health Policy, University of Glasgow, 1 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
3 School of Geography, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Environmental Health 2009, 8(Suppl 1):S18 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-S1-S18
Published: 21 December 2009Abstract
This Environment and Human Health project aims to develop a health-based summary measure of multiple physical environmental deprivation for the UK, akin to the measures of multiple socioeconomic deprivation that are widely used in epidemiology. Here we describe the first stage of the project, in which we aimed to identify health-relevant dimensions of physical environmental deprivation and acquire suitable environmental datasets to represent population exposure to these dimensions at the small-area level. We present the results of this process: an evidence-based list of environmental dimensions with population health relevance for the UK, and the spatial datasets we obtained and processed to represent these dimensions. This stage laid the foundations for the rest of the project, which will be reported elsewhere.