Developing and disseminating tools for population health improvement: an online interactive atlas for identifying environmental change

英国拥有一些世界上最好的关于个人及其健康的纵向数据，但相比之下，关于建筑和物理环境的纵向数据很差，非专家很难获得。这一点很重要，因为环境是健康的重要决定因素。MRC/CSO社会与公共卫生科学部根据地形测量局(OS)的数据编制了一份关于建筑和物理环境变化的地图集，但目前仅限于苏格兰，提供的环境属性范围很窄，缺乏环境和变化的现成测量，这将使其对公众、政策制定者、规划者和那些评估环境干预对健康和健康不平等的影响的人更有用。该项目旨在通过整理、加强和共享易于使用的信息来增加改善人口健康的工具，以便在整个大不列颠的精细空间尺度上捕捉建筑和物质环境随时间发生的变化，以便将数据与健康和/或与健康有关的行为的变化联系起来，并评估环境干预措施对健康、行为和不平等的影响。

The UK has some of the world’s best longitudinal data on individuals and their health but, in contrast, longitudinal data on built and physical environments are poor and hard to access for the non-expert. This matters because the environment is an important determinant of health. The MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit have developed an atlas of built and physical environment change from Ordnance Survey (OS) data but this is currently for Scotland only, offers a narrow range of environmental attributes and lacks ‘off-the-shelf’ measures of both environment and change which would make it more useful for the public, policy makers, planners and those evaluating the impacts of environmental interventions on health and health inequalities. The project aims to add to tools for population health improvement by collating, enhancing and sharing easy-to-use information capturing change in the built and physical environment over time, at fine spatial scale for the whole of Great Britain, in order to link data to changes in health and/or health-related behaviours and to evaluate the impacts of environmental interventions on health, behaviour and inequalities.