: Category 151

Category 151
Additional exposures ⏵ Local environment ⏵ Greenspace and coastal proximity

Description

This category contains environmental indicators relating to greenspace exposure and distance to the coast that was attributed to participants based on home location grid references. The data linkage was undertaken by the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School. The available metrics include:

Greenspace estimates (at 1000m and 300m home location buffers);
Land coverage estimates (for domestic gardens and water) (at 1000m and 300m home location buffers);
Land coverage estimates for the 'natural environment' compared to the 'built environment' (at 1000m and 300m home location buffers);
Distance from home location to the coast.

The location used for each measurement was the participant's home at the time they were assessed in a UK Biobank centre. The date of the assessment visit is indicated in Field 53.

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Notes

There is evidence to suggest that where one lives can influence mental and physical health. Application 15374 focussed on analysis of mental health, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and physical activity. The aim was to understand the factors that mediate the relationship between the natural environment surrounding an individual and their physical and mental health. More specifically, the research sought to investigate associations between the environmental characteristics of participants' place of birth and current home location, and health outcomes (e.g. mental health and wellbeing, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and physical activity), with a focus on the questions:

Do individuals living in closer proximity to greenspace or blue space participate in more physical activity?
Does proximity to greenspace or blue space influence mental health and wellbeing? Does physical activity mediate this?
Are there associations between participants' place of birth and/or current living environment, and physical disease (specifically cardiovascular disease and diabetes)?

The Principal investigator was Dr Benedict Wheeler of the University of Exeter.

Note that some participants only have data available for one instance. The completeness of data across these fields is determined by the participant's country of residence since data-fields 24500-24505 are available for England only.

9 Data-Fields

Field ID	Description
24506	Natural environment percentage, buffer 1000m
24507	Natural environment percentage, buffer 300m
24500	Greenspace percentage, buffer 1000m
24503	Greenspace percentage, buffer 300m
24501	Domestic garden percentage, buffer 1000m
24504	Domestic garden percentage, buffer 300m
24502	Water percentage, buffer 1000m
24505	Water percentage, buffer 300m
24508	Distance (Euclidean) to coast

1 Parent Category

Category ID	Description	Items
113	Local environment	1+47

1 Resource

Preview	Name	Res ID
	Environmental indicators attributed to participant's home location	15374

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