The environment and health atlas for England and Wales / A. L. Hansell [and six others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansell, A. L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical geography--England.

Medical geography.

Medical geography--Wales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : color illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An authoritative collection of over 80 full colour maps discussing the geographic patterns of disease and potential exposure to various pollutants in England and Wales.

Contents:

Cover 1

The Environment and Health Atlas for England and Wales

Copyright

Foreword

Preface

Contents

List of contributors

Author biographies

List of figures

List of tables

Glossary of abbreviations and acronyms

Glossary of measurements

chapter 1 Introduction

Aims of The Environment and Health Atlas

Using maps as part of investigations of potential environmental hazards

Contents of this atlas

chapter 2 Guide to reading and interpreting the maps and tables

Maps providing contextual information

Maps of environmental exposures

Maps of health outcomes

How to read the smoothed relative risk maps

How to read the posterior probability maps

Using the tables and figures for health outcomes

Time trend graphs

Regional rates

Explanation of the elements of the statistics tables

chapter 3 Contextual maps

Background

Topography

Administrative boundaries

Population density

Urbanisation

Socio-economic characteristics (Carstairs)

Cancer registries

part 1 Environmental agents

4.1 Agricultural pesticides

4.2 Air pollution (NO2, PM10)

4.3 Chlorination disinfection by-products in public water supplies

4.4 Radon

4.5 Sunshine duration

part 2 Health outcomes

5.1 Lung cancer

Time trends in lung cancer in England and Wales

Comparison with Europe and the rest of the world

Major risk factors for lung cancer

Environmental risk factors for lung cancer

Interpretation of the maps of lung cancer in England and Wales

Regional rates for lung cancer

What the summary statistics tables for lung cancer show

Further information

5.2 Breast cancer

Time trends in breast cancer in England and Wales

Major risk factors for breast cancer.

Environmental risk factors for breast cancer

Interpretation of the maps of breast cancer in England and Wales

Regional rates for breast cancer

What the summary statistics tables for breast cancer show

5.3 Prostate cancer

Time trends in prostate cancer in England and Wales

Major risk factors for prostate cancer

Environmental risk factors for prostate cancer

Interpretation of the maps of prostate cancer in England and Wales

Regional rates for prostate cancer

What the summary statistics tables for prostate cancer show

5.4 Malignant melanoma

Time trends in malignant melanoma in England and Wales

Major risk factors for malignant melanoma

Environmental risk factors for malignant melanoma

Interpretation of the maps of malignant melanoma in England and Wales

Regional rates for malignant melanoma

What the summary statistics tables for malignant melanoma show

5.5 Bladder cancer

Time trends in bladder cancer in England and Wales

Major risk factors for bladder cancer

Environmental risk factors for bladder cancer

Interpretation of the maps of bladder cancer in England and Wales

Regional rates for bladder cancer

What the summary statistics tables for bladder cancer show

5.6 Leukaemia

Time trends in leukaemia in England and Wales

Major risk factors for leukaemia

Environmental risk factors for leukaemia

Interpretation of the maps of leukaemia in England and Wales

Regional rates for leukaemia.

What the summary statistics tables for leukaemia show

5.7 Brain cancer

Time trends in brain cancer in England and Wales

Comparison with the rest of the world

Major risk factors for brain cancer

Environmental risk factors for brain cancer

Interpretation of the maps of brain cancer in England and Wales

Regional rates for brain cancer

What the summary statistics tables for brain cancer show

5.8 Liver cancer

Time trends in liver cancer in England and Wales

Major risk factors for liver cancer

Environmental risk factors for liver cancer

Interpretation of the maps of liver cancer in England and Wales

Regional rates for liver cancer

What the summary statistics tables for liver cancer show

5.9 Mesothelioma

Time trends in mesothelioma in England and Wales

Major risk factors for mesothelioma

Environmental risk factors for mesothelioma

Interpretation of the maps of mesothelioma incidence in England and Wales

Regional rates for mesothelioma

What the summary statistics tables for mesothelioma show

5.10 Coronary heart disease

Summary

Time trends in CHD in England and Wales

Major risk factors for CHD

Environmental risk factors for CHD

Interpretation of the maps of CHD in England and Wales

Regional rates for CHD mortality

What the summary statistics tables for CHD show

5.11 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Time trends in COPD mortality in England and Wales

Major risk factors for COPD mortality.

Environmental risk factors for COPD mortality

Interpretation of the maps of COPD mortality in England and Wales

Regional rates for COPD mortality

What the summary statistics tables for COPD show

5.12 Kidney disease

Time trends in kidney disease mortality in England and Wales

Major risk factors for kidney disease

Environmental risk factors for kidney disease

Interpretation of the maps of kidney disease in England and Wales

Regional rates for kidney disease mortality

What the summary statistics tables for kidney disease show (see Chapter 2, page 12, for an explanation of the elements of the

Acknowledgements

5.13 Stillbirths

Time trends in stillbirths in England and Wales

Major risk factors for stillbirth

Environmental risk factors for stillbirth

Interpretation of the maps of stillbirths in England and Wales

Regional rates for stillbirths

What the summary statistics tables for stillbirths show

5.14 Low birth weight

Time trends in low birth weight in England and Wales

Major risk factors for low birth weight

Environmental risk factors for low birth weight

Interpretation of the maps of low birth weight in England and Wales

Regional rates for low birth weight

What the summary statistics tables for low birth weight show

chapter 6 Technical appendix

6.1 Methods used to create the environmental exposures maps

6.2 Methods used to create the health outcome maps

6.3 Global and European distribution maps

6.4 Epidemiological terms

References

Index.

Notes:

"UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-101688-8

OCLC:

881035292