Does Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure Affect Self-Reported Health and Limiting Long Term Illness Disproportionately for Ethnic Minorities in the UK? A Census-Based Individual Level Analysis

• Published in: Applied spatial analysis and policy Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 1557 - 1582
• Main Authors: Al Ahad, Mary Abed, Demšar, Urška, Sullivan, Frank, Kulu, Hill
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Air pollution; Air pollution effects; Census; Censuses; Data; Ethnic groups; Ethnicity; Health; Human Geography; Illnesses; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Linear analysis; Minority & ethnic groups; Minority groups; Nitrogen dioxide; Particulate matter; Regional/Spatial Science; Self report; Social Sciences; Sulfur dioxide; United Kingdom > UK; Ireland; Air pollution; United Kingdom; Ethnicity; Limiting-long-term-illness; Country of birth; Self-reported health

Previous studies have investigated the impact of air pollution on health and mortality. However, there is little research on how this impact varies by individuals’ ethnicity. Using a sample of more than 2.5-million individuals aged 16 and older from the 2011 UK census linked to 10-years air pollutio...