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Neighborhood deprivation and biomarkers of health in Britain: the mediating role of the physical environment

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Title
Neighborhood deprivation and biomarkers of health in Britain: the mediating role of the physical environment
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BMC Public Health, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5667-3
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M. Pia Chaparro, Michaela Benzeval, Elizabeth Richardson, Richard Mitchell

Abstract

Neighborhood deprivation has been consistently linked to poor individual health outcomes; however, studies exploring the mechanisms involved in this association are scarce. The objective of this study was to investigate whether objective measures of the physical environment mediate the association between neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and biomarkers of health in Britain. We linked individual-level biomarker data from Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Survey (2010-2012) to neighborhood-level data from different governmental sources. Our outcome variables were forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1%; n=16,347), systolic blood pressure (SBP; n=16,846), body mass index (BMI; n=19,417), and levels of C-reactive protein (CRP; n=11,825). Our measure of neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation was the Carstairs index, and the neighborhood-level mediators were levels of air pollutants (sulphur dioxide [SO2], particulate matter [PM10], nitrogen dioxide [NO2], and carbon monoxide [CO]), green space, and proximity to waste and industrial facilities. We fitted a multilevel mediation model following a multilevel structural equation framework in MPlus v7.4, adjusting for age, gender, and income. Residents of poor neighborhoods and those exposed to higher pollution and less green space had worse health outcomes. However, only SO2 exposure significantly and partially mediated the association between neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and SBP, BMI, and CRP. Reducing air pollution exposure and increasing access to green space may improve population health but may not decrease health inequalities in Britain.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 114 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 17%
Researcher 16 14%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 11 10%
Unknown 34 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 11%
Environmental Science 8 7%
Psychology 8 7%
Other 14 12%
Unknown 39 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 December 2018.
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