The Centre has six research themes. Follow the theme title link to find out more about each theme. Links to current and recent projects are also provided. Since projects can address more than one theme, some may be listed more than once.
Environmental deprivation
Developing measures of multiple environmental deprivation for the UK (MEDIx and MEDClass)
The South Lanarkshire Index of Multiple Environmental Deprivation (SLIMED)
Estimating the effects of air pollution on human health in Scotland
Developing measures of multiple environmental deprivation for New Zealand
Developing measures of multiple environmental deprivation for Portugal
Environment and health behaviours
Connected communities: growing your own food
Gender and geography in alcohol-related mortality
Influence of the neighbourhood alcohol environment on drinking and health in Scotland
Smoking cessation and the environment
Health Impacts of the John Muir Award
Green spaces and health
Contribution of green and open space in public health and well-being
Green space and health in New Zealand
Health Impacts of the John Muir Award
The outdoor environment as a means of tackling poor health and health inequalities
Ward level green space estimates
Inequalities
Neighbourhoods and Health in New Zealand
Gender and geography in alcohol-related mortality
The outdoor environment as a means of tackling poor health and health inequalities
Developing measures of multiple environmental deprivation for the UK (MEDIx and MEDClass)
Air pollution
Air pollution and health in New Zealand
Constructing representative air quality indicators with measures of uncertainty
Estimating biologically plausible relationships between air pollution and health
Estimating the effects of air pollution on human health in Scotland
Methodology
Making international comparisons in health and inequality
Constructing representative air quality indicators with measures of uncertainty
Cliffs and slopes: better ways to deal with spatial autocorrelation
