Pathways to equitable health cities
Project aims
This project aims to understand the impacts of planning and policy actions on population health and on health inequalities, focusing on cities in five countries (Bangladesh, Canada, China, Ghana and the UK). We will capture spatial inequalities in health focusing on mortality, hospitalisation, cancer incidence and birth outcomes (prematurity and birth weight) using methods from spatial and spatio-temporal statistics. We will also use environmental epidemiological models to simulate how specific actions related to housing, neighbourhood design, transportation, sanitation, water and safety and health services impact population health, which will help inform planning and policy decisions. Our work is in close collaboration with the PHE.
Data
ONS/NHS Digital/PHE:
HES Admitted Patient Care, HES Accident and Emergency Attendances
Birth and Death registrations
Cancer incidence from 2001 onwards.
Environmental exposures will be assigned to health records using the residential postcode and following standard SAHSU procedures.
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