Open data on health-related neighbourhood features in Great Britain
Open data on health-related neighbourhood features in Great Britain
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DOI：
10.1038/s41597-019-0114-6
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发表时间：
2019-07-01
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影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Singleton, Alex
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作者：
Daras, Konstantinos;Green, Mark A.;Singleton, Alex
我们的研究详细介绍了创建一系列国家开源低级别的地理措施，以获得健康相关的功能，为英国。我们在三个领域制定了14项措施：零售环境（快餐店，赌博店，酒馆/酒吧/夜总会，非许可证，烟草商），卫生服务（全科医生，药房，牙医，医院，休闲中心）和物理环境（绿色空间和空气质量）。使用的网络分析过程中的Escherino，邮政编码的可达性（公里），这些功能的计算为整个英国。计算每个领域的平均得分，然后将其合并，形成一个突出“获得健康资产和危险”的总体指数。我们发现，最容易获得的健康区域集中在城市核心的外围，而最不容易获得的健康区域位于城市核心和农村地区。开放数据资源对于有兴趣衡量空间特征对健康的作用的研究人员和决策者都很重要。
Our study details the creation of a series of national open source low-level geographical measures of accessibility to health-related features for Great Britain. We create 14 measures across three domains: retail environment (fast food outlets, gambling outlets, pubs/bars/nightclubs, off-licences, tobacconists), health services (General Practitioners, pharmacies, dentists, hospitals, leisure centres) and the physical environment (green space and air quality). Using the network analysis process of Routino, postcode accessibility (km) to each of these features were calculated for the whole of Great Britain. An average score for each domain was calculated and subsequently combined to form an overall Index highlighting 'Access to Healthy Assets and Hazards'. We find the most accessible healthy areas are concentrated in the periphery of the urban cores, whilst the least accessible healthy areas are located in the urban cores and the rural areas. The open data resource is important for researchers and policy makers alike with an interest in measuring the role of spatial features on health.