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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Clare BambraORCiD, Dr Jo Cairns, Dr Alison Copeland
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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.
Author(s): Bambra C, Cairns J, Kasim A, Smith J, Robertson S, Copeland A, Johnson K
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Health & Place
Year: 2015
Volume: 34
Pages: 257-269
Print publication date: 01/07/2015
Online publication date: 20/06/2015
Acceptance date: 19/05/2015
Date deposited: 05/02/2017
ISSN (print): 1353-8292
ISSN (electronic): 1873-2054
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.05.010
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.05.010
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