: Category 100115

Category 100115
Additional exposures ⏵ Local environment ⏵ UK Biobank Urban Morphometric Platform

Description

This category contains data obtained from a morphometric analysis of the built environment that was conducted by the Cochrane Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University. The aim of this project was to create an objective assessment of the built environment within the immediate residential neighbourhood of UK Biobank participants. Since January 2017, Built Environment metrics are available for participants from all assessment centres.

The available metrics include:

Building class
Destination accessibility
Greenness
Land use density
Street network accessibility
Terrain (slope)
Accessibility foodscapes (London area only)

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Notes

The aim of the UK Biobank Built Environment project was the objective assessment of the built environment (OABE) around the immediate neighbourhood of 500,000 participants of the UK Biobank cohort.

This resulted in the modelling, compilation and linkage of corresponding longitudinal spatial database of built environment with the UK Biobank health datasets. The large-scale automation of such detailed and precise measures of individual-level built environment morphological metrics (morphometrics) has the potential to unravel the black box of causality, the pathways through which built environment in conjunction with the social and natural environment act as one of fundamental determinants of individual behaviour, physical and mental health.

OABE of UK Biobank can thus produce a comprehensive evidence-base on the impact of BE on lifestyle, behaviour and thereby health and hence, guide preventive intervention strategies as well as policy formulation.

1 Parent Category

Category ID	Description	Items
113	Local environment	1+47

10 Resources

Preview	Name	Res ID
	Accessibility Foodscapes	146600
	Building Class	146601
	Built environment data manual	146606
	Built environment foodscapes metrics manual	146607
	Greenness	146581
	Health Specific Destination Accessibility	146602
	Indices of Multiple Deprivation	146603
	Land Use Density	146580
	Street Network Accessibility	146604
	Terrain	146605

1 Application

Application ID	Title
38006	UK Biobank Urban Morphometric Platform

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