Environmental justice and health: The implications of the socio-spatial distribution of multiple environmental deprivation for health inequalities in the United Kingdom

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 522-539

  Pearce, Jamie R ^a   Richardson, Elizabeth A ^a   Mitchell, Richard J ^b   Shortt, Niamh K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binomial regression; Environmental deprivation; Environmental justice; GIS; Health inequalities; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GIS; HEALTH IMPACT; INCOME; MORTALITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78650428342     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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