Neighbourhoods and Health
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this programme is to further our understanding of the ways in which aspects of the local social and physical environment interact to influence health and the ability to lead a healthy life. Building on our previous work our objectives are to continue to explore the location and distribution of heath promoting/damaging amenities and resources; how these are used; how they relate to health; and how they and their social meaning change over time. We propose to examine: lag times; the relative importance of subjective and objective measures of neighbourhoods; and both physical and social exposures. We will also investigate differential neighbourhood exposures and vulnerabilities by age, socio-economic status, gender and rurality.
Publications
[in press]
Ellaway A, Emslie C. Gender, place and alcohol. In: Stock C, Ellaway A, editors Neighbourhood structure and health promotion. New York: Springer, [in press].
Ellaway A, Ferguson N, Lamb K, Ogilvie D. Access to health promoting facilities and amenities. In: Stock C, Ellaway A, editors Neighbourhood structure and health promotion. New York: Springer, [in press].
Ellaway A. The impact of the local social and physical local environment on well being. In: Burton E, Cooper R, editors Wellbeing and the environment. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, [in press].
2013
Ferguson N, Lamb K, Ogilvie D, Wang YY, Ellaway A. Access to recreational physical activities by car and bus: an assessment of socio-spatial inequalities in mainland Scotland. PLOS One 2013;8: e55638
open accessMacdonald L, Kearns A, Ellaway A . Do residents' perceptions of being well-placed and objective presence of local amenities match? A case study in West Central Scotland, UK. BMC Public Health 2013;13
open accessMacintyre S, Ellaway A. Place. In: Gabe J, Bury M, Elston MA, editors Key concepts in medical sociology. 2nd ed. London: Sage, 2013.
Young R, Macdonald L, Ellaway A. Associations between proximity and density of local alcohol outlets and alcohol use among Scottish adolescents. Health & Place 2013;19:124-130
open access2012
Ball K, Lamb K, Ellaway A. Street connectivity and obesity in Glasgow, Scotland: impact of age, sex and socioeconomic position. Health & Place 2012;18:1307-1313
open accessBirkin P, Crawford F, Mackison D, Mooney J, Ellaway A. Exploring the nutritional quality of ‘Out of School’ foods popular with school pupils. Environmental Health Scotland 2012;24:5
open accessCrawford F, Ellaway A, Mackison D, Mooney J. ‘Is eating out of school a healthy option for secondary pupils?’ A feasibility study to explore the nutritional quality of ‘out of school’ foods popular with school pupils. Glasgow, 2012
open accessCrawford F, Research Steering Group including Anne Ellaway. Exploring the nutritional quality of 'out of school' foods popular with schoolchildren: GCPH Briefing Paper 35 - Findings Series. Glasgow, 2012
open accessDavidson N, Forsyth A, Ellaway A. Shop servers experience of alcohol-related issues and interventions in socially contrasting areas. London, 2012
open accessEllaway A, Benzeval M, Green M, Leyland AH, Macintyre S. 'Getting sicker quicker': does living in a more deprived neighbourhood mean your health deteriorates faster?. Health & Place 2012;18:132-7
pubmed open accessEllaway A, Macdonald L, Lamb K, Thornton L, Day P, Pearce J. Do obesity-promoting food environments cluster around socially disadvantaged schools in Glasgow, Scotland?. Health & Place 2012;18
pubmed open accessKarvonen S, Young R, West P, Rahkonen O. Value orientations among late modern youth: a cross-cultural study. Journal of Youth Studies 2012;15:33-52
Kelly T, McCafferty E, Metcalfe J, Petrie G, van Beinum M, Young R. Evaluating the Glasgow adolescent self-harm service: a seven-year retrospective investigation: Executive Summary. Scottish Executive Health Department, Chief Scientist's Office , Edinburgh, 2012
open accessLamb KE, Ogilvie D, Ferguson N, Murray J, Yang Wang Y, Ellaway A. Sociospatial distribution of access to facilities for moderate and vigorous intensity physical activity in Scotland by different modes of transport. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012;9:55
pubmed open accessMacintyre S. Evidence in the development of health policy. Public Health 2012;126:217-219
pubmed open accessMarkham W, Young R, Sweeting H, West P, Aveyard P. Are the relationships between value-added education and teenage substance use explained by school-level and pupil-level school ethos indicators? A cohort study. Social Science & Medicine 2012;75:69-76
pubmed open accessMolaodi O R, Leyland AH, Ellaway A, Kearns A, Harding S. Neighbourhood food and physical activity environments in England, UK: does ethnic density matter?. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012;9:75
pubmed open accessOsei-Assibey G, Dick S, Macdiarmid JI, Semple S, Reill J, Ellaway A, Cowie H, McNeill G. The influence of the food environment on overweight and obesity in young children: a systematic review. BMJ Open 2012;2:e001538
open accessThornton LE, Pearce JR, Macdonald L, Lamb KE, Ellaway A. Does the choice of neighbourhood supermarket access measure influence associations with individual-level fruit and vegetable consumption? A case study from Glasgow. International Journal of Health Geographics 2012;11:29
pubmed open accessYoung R, Sweeting H, West P. Associations between DSM-IV diagnosis, psychiatric symptoms and morning cortisol levels in a community sample of adolescents. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2012;47:723-733
pubmed open accessYoung R. Can Neds (or Chavs) be non-delinquent, educated or even middle class? Contrasting empirical findings with cultural stereotypes. Sociology 2012;46:1140-1160
2011
Hunt K, Sweeting H, Sargent J, Lewars H, Young R, West P. Is there an association between seeing incidents of alcohol or drug use in films and young Scottish adults' own alcohol or drug use? A cross sectional study. BMC Public Health 2011;11:259
pubmed open accessMacdonald L, Ellaway A, Ball K, Macintyre S. Is proximity to a food retail store associated with diet and BMI in Glasgow, Scotland?. BMC Public Health 2011;11:464
pubmed open accessMcArdle P, Young R, Quibell T, Moseley M, Johnson R, Le Couteur A. Early intervention for at risk children: three year follow up. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 2011;20:111-20
pubmedOgilvie D, Lamb K, Ferguson N, Ellaway A. Recreational physical activity facilities within walking and cycling distance: sociospatial patterning of access in Scotland . Health & Place 2011;17:1015-22
pubmedShareck M, Ellaway A. Neighbourhood crime and smoking: the role of objective and perceived crime measures. BMC Public Health 2011;11:930
pubmed open accessSweeting H, West P, Young R, Kelly S. Dimensions of adolescent subjective social status within the school community: description and correlates. Journal of Adolescence 2011;34:493-504
pubmed open accessYoung R, Lennie S, Minnis H. Children’s perceptions of parental emotional neglect and psychopathology . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2011;52:889-97
pubmed open accessYoung R, McCafferty E, Metcalfe J, van Beinum MA. Evaluating the Glasgow adolescent self-harm service: a seven-year retrospective investigation: Final Report. Glasgow, 2011
Young R, McDonald-Smith L. Lisbeth Salander and the ‘Truth’ about Goths. In: Rosenberg R, editor The psychology of the girl with the dragon tattoo. Dallas: Benbella Books, 2011:9-29.
Young R, Riordan V, Stark C. Perinatal and psychosocial circumstances and risk of attempted suicide, non-suicidal self-injury and psychiatric services use: a longitudinal study of young people. BMC Public Health 2011;11:875
pubmed open accessYoung R, Sweeting H, Ellaway A. Do schools differ in suicide risk? The influence of school and neighbourhood on attempted suicide, suicidal ideation and self-harm among secondary school pupils. BMC Public Health 2011;11:874
pubmed open access2010
Ellaway A, Macdonald L, Forsyth A, Macintyre S. The socio-spatial distribution of alcohol outlets in Glasgow City. Health & Place 2010;16:167-72
pubmedLamb KE, Ferguson N S, Wang Y, Ogilvie D, Ellaway A. Distribution of physical activity facilities in Scotland by small area measures of deprivation and urbanicity. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2010;7:76
pubmed open accessMcNeill, Osei-Assibey G, Dick S, Macdiarmid J, Semple S, Reilly J, Ellaway A, Cowie H. Obesity case study phase II summary report. Environmental Determinants of Public Health in Scotland [EDPHiS] , Edinburgh, 2010
open accessSeaman P, Jones R, Ellaway A. It's not just about the park, it's about integration too: why people choose to use or not use urban greenspaces. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2010;7:78
pubmed open accessSweeting H, West P, Young R, Der G. Can we explain increases in young people's psychological distress over time?. Social Science & Medicine 2010;71:1819-30
pubmed open accessWest P, Sweeting H, Young R, Kelly S. The relative importance of family socioeconomic status and school-based peer hierachies for morning cortisol in youth: an exploratory study. Social Science & Medicine 2010;79:1246-53
pubmed open accessWest P, Sweeting H, Young R. Transition matters: pupils' experiences of the primary-secondary school transition in the West of Scotland and consequences for well-being and attainment. Research Papers in Education 2010;25:21-50
open accessWilson K., Eyles J, Ellaway A, Macintyre S, Macdonald L. Health status and health behaviours in neighbourhoods: a comparison of Glasgow, Scotland and Hamilton, Canada. Health & Place 2010;16:331-8
pubmed open accessYoung R, West P. Do good values lead to good health-behaviours?: longitudinal associations between young people's values and later substance-use. BMC Public Health 2010;10:165
pubmed open accessYoung R. Trauma, attempted suicide and morning cortisol in a community sample of adolescents. Journal of Traumatic Stress 2010;23:288–291
open access2009
Cummins S, Macintyre S. Are secondary data sources on the neighbourhood food environment accurate? Case-study in Glasgow, UK. Preventive Medicine 2009;49:527-8
pubmedEllaway A, Morris G, Curtice J, Robertson C, Allardice G, Robertson R. Associations between health and different kinds of environmental incivility: a Scotland-wide Study. Public Health 2009;123:708-13
pubmedHunt K, Sweeting H, Sargent J, Lewars H, Dal Cin S, Worth K. An examination of the association between seeing smoking in films and tobacco use in young adults in the West of Scotland: cross-sectional study. Health Education Research 2009;24:22-31
pubmed open accessMacdonald L, Ellaway A, Macintyre S. The food retail environment and area deprivation in Glasgow City. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2009;6:52
pubmed open accessMcAdam C (nee Hughes) . The socioeconomic variations in the provision, quality and public perceptions of outdoor play areas in Glasgow [PhD], MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit 2009.
open accessOsei-Assibey G, McNeill G, Macdiarmid J, Semple S, Reilly J, Ellaway A. Obesity case study: phase one scoping report. Edinburgh, 2009
open accessVohera S, Hurley F, Christopher Y, Ellaway A, Tedon P, Sabel C, McCollam A, Crawford J. Mental health and wellbeing case study scoping report. Edinburgh, 2009
open access2008
Jones R, Ellaway A, Seaman P, Kendall R, Truman J. More than just a park: findings from the facilitators and barriers greenspace study. Glasgow Centre for Population Health , Glasgow, 2008
Macintyre S, MacDonald L, Ellaway A. Do poorer people have poorer access to local resources and facilities? The distribution of local resources by area deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland. Social Science & Medicine 2008;67:900-14
pubmed open accessMacintyre S, Macdonald L, Ellaway A. Lack of agreement between measured and self-reported distance from public green parks in Glasgow, Scotland. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008;5:26
pubmed open access2007
Croucher K, Myers L, Jones R, Ellaway A. Health and the physical characteristics of neighbourhoods: a critical literature review. Glasgow Centre for Population Health , Glasgow, 2007
Cummins S, Curtis S, Diez-Roux AV, Macintyre S. Understanding and representing 'place' in health research: a relational approach. Social Science & Medicine 2007;65:1825-1838
pubmedEllaway A, Macintyre S, Mutrie N, Kirk A. Nowhere to play? The relationship between the location of outdoor play areas and deprivation in Glasgow. Health & Place 2007;13:557-561
pubmedEllaway A, Macintyre S. Is social participation associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors?. Social Science & Medicine 2007;64:1384-1391
pubmedHiscock R, Ellaway A, Macintyre S, Kearns A. The significance of residence: exploring the links between ontological security, housing tenure and place. In: Gurney C , editor Placing changes: perspectives on place in housing and urban studies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Macdonald L, Cummins S, Macintyre S. Neighbourhood fast food environment and area deprivation- substitution or concentration?. Appetite 2007;49:251-4
pubmedMacintyre S, Ellaway A, Cummins S. Place Effects on Health . In: Brown P, editor Perspectives in medical sociology. Fourth ed. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 2007:125-137.
Macintyre S. Inequalities in health in Scotland: what are they and what can we do about them?. MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit Occasional Paper , Glasgow, 2007
Macintyre S. Deprivation amplification revisited: or, is it always true that poorer places have poorer access to resources for healthy diets and physical activity?. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2007;4:32
pubmed open access2006
Cummins S, Macintyre S. Food environments and obesity: neighbourhood or nation?. International Journal of Epidemiology 2006;35:100-104.
pubmedEllaway A, Macintyre S. Contrasts in public transport [gallery]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2006;60ID - 1661:344
Pearson M, Sweeting H, West P, Young R, Gordon J, Turner J. Adolescent substance use in different social and peer contexts: a social network analysis. Drugs, Education, Prevention and Policy 2006;13:519-536
Steglich C, Snijders TAB, West P. Applying SIENA: an illustrative analysis of the co-evolution of adolescents' friendship networks, taste in music, and alcohol consumption. Methodology: Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences 2006;2:48-56
Turner K, West P, Young R, Gordon J, Sweeting H. Could the peer group explain school differences in pupil smoking rates?. Social Science & Medicine 2006;62:2513-2525
pubmed2005
Cummins S C, McKay L, Macintyre S. McDonald's restaurants and neighborhood deprivation in Scotland and England. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2005;29:308-310
pubmedCummins S, Macintyre S, Davidson S, Ellaway A. Measuring neighbourhood social and material context: generation and interpretation of ecological data from routine and non-routine sources. Health & Place 2005;11:249-260
pubmedCurtice J, Ellaway A, Robertson C, Morris G, Allardice G, Robertson R. Public attitudes and environmental justice in Scotland: a report for the Scottish Executive on research to inform the development and evaluation of environmental justice policy. Edinburgh, 2005
Macintyre S, McKay L, Cummins S, Burns C. Out-of-home food outlets and area deprivation: case study in Glasgow, UK. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2005;2:16
pubmedMacintyre S, McKay L, Ellaway A. Are rich people or poor people more likely to be ill? Lay perceptions, by social class and neighbourhood, of inequalities in health. Social Science & Medicine 2005;60:313-317
pubmedMacintyre S, McKay L, Ellaway A. Who is more likely to experience common disorders: men, women, or both equally? Lay perceptions in the West of Scotland. International Journal of Epidemiology 2005;34:461-466
pubmed2004
Ellaway A, Macintyre S. 5-a-day may be harder to achieve in more deprived areas [gallery]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2004;58ID - 2150:592
Ellaway A, Macintyre S. Schools in socially contrasting neighbourhoods [gallery]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2004;58ID - 2151:1027
Ellaway A, Macintyre S. You are where you live. Mental Health Today 2004:33-35
Ellaway A, McKay L, Macintyre S, Kearns A, Hiscock R. Are social comparisons of homes and cars related to psychosocial health?. International Journal of Epidemiology 2004;33:1065-1071
pubmedEllaway A. Subtle refinements of popular concepts may be difficult to put into practice [commentary]. International Journal of Epidemiology 2004;33ID - 2153:681-2
Kirk A, Ellaway A, Mutrie N, Macintyre S. Play for health: a pilot study investigating the distribution and features of publicly provided outdoor play areas in Glasgow. MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit Working Paper no. 12 , Glasgow, 2004
2003
Cummins S. The local food environment and health: some reflections from the UK [letter]. American Journal of Public Health 2003;93ID - 2321:521
Ellaway A, Macintyre S, Hiscock R, Kearns A. In the driving seat: psychosocial benefits from private motor vehicle transport compared to public transport. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 2003;6:217-231
Ellaway A, Macintyre S, McKay L. The historical specificity of early life car ownership as an indicator of socio-economic position. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2003;57:277-278
pubmedEllaway A, Macintyre S. Housing and social exclusion, the problems of living in poor quality accommodation. In: Carter David, Sharp Samantha, British Medical Association , editors Housing and health : building for the future. London: British Medical Association, 2003:41-47.
Ellaway A, Macintyre S. Play areas for children [gallery]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2003;57ID - 2311:313
Hiscock R, Macintyre S, Ellaway A, Kearns A. Residents and residence: factors predicting the health disadvantage of social renters compared to owner-occupiers. Journal of Social Issues 2003;59:527-546
Pearson M, West P. Drifting smoke rings: social network analysis and Markov processes in a longitudinal study of friendship groups and risk taking. Connections: bulletin of the International Network for Social Network Analysis 2003;25:59-76
open access2002
Cummins S, Macintyre S. A systematic study of an urban foodscape: the price and availability of food in Greater Glasgow. Urban Studies 2002;39:2115-2130
Cummins S, Macintyre S. Food 'deserts': evidence and assumption in health policy making. British Medical Journal 2002;325:436-438
pubmed open accessHiscock R, Macintyre S, Kearns A, Ellaway A. Means of transport and ontological security: do cars provide psychosocial benefits to their users?. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and the Environment 2002;7:119-135
Macintyre S, Ellaway A, Cummins S. Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them?. Social Science & Medicine 2002;55:125-139
pubmed2001
Ellaway A, Macintyre S, Kearns A. Perceptions of place and health in socially contrasting neighbourhoods. Urban Studies 2001;38:2299-2316
Ellaway A, Macintyre S. Women in their place: gender and perceptions of neighbourhoods and health in the West of Scotland. In: Dyck I, Davis Lewis N, McLafferty S, editors Geographies of women's health. London: Routledge, 2001:265-281.
Hiscock R, Kearns A, Macintyre S, Ellaway A. Ontological security and psychosocial benefits from the home: qualitative evidence on issues of tenure. Housing, Theory and Society 2001;18:50-66
Macintyre S, Hiscock R, Kearns A, Ellaway A. Housing tenure and car access: further exploration of the nature of their relationships with health in a UK setting. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2001;55:330-331
pubmed2000
Ellaway A, Macintyre S, Fairley A. Mums on Prozac, kids on inhalers: the need for research on the potential for improving health through housing interventions. Health Bulletin 2000;58:336-339
pubmedEllaway A, Macintyre S. Shopping for food in socially contrasting localities. British Food Journal 2000;102:52-59
Ellaway A, Macintyre S. Social capital and self rated health: support for a contextual mechanism. American Journal of Public Health 2000;90:988
pubmedKearns A, Hiscock R, Ellaway A, Macintyre S. Beyond four walls: the psycho-social benefits of home: evidence from West Scotland. Housing Studies 2000;15:387-410
Macintyre S, Ellaway A. Ecological approaches: the rediscovery of the role of the physical and social environment. In: Berkman L, Kawachi I, editors Social epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000:332-348.
Macintyre S, Ellaway A. Neighbourhood cohesion and health in socially contrasting neighbourhoods: implications for the social exclusion and public health agendas. Health Bulletin 2000;60:450-456
pubmedMacintyre S, Hiscock R, Kearns A, Ellaway A. Housing, tenure and health inequalities: a three-dimensional perspective on people, homes, and neighbourhoods. In: Graham H, editor Understanding health inequalities. Buckingham: Open University Press, 2000:129-142.
Pearson M, Michell L. Smoke rings: social network analysis of friendship groups, smoking and drug-taking. Drugs Education, Prevention & Policy 2000;7:21-37
1999
Cummins S, Macintyre S. The location of food stores in urban areas: a case study in Glasgow. British Food Journal 1999;101:545 - 553
Ellaway A, Wood S, Macintyre S. Someone to talk to? The role of loneliness as a factor in the frequency of GP consultations. British Journal of General Practice 1999;49:363-367
pubmedMacintyre S, Ellaway A. Local opportunity structures, social capital and social inequalities in health: what can central and local government do?. Health Promotion Journal of Australia 1999;9:165-170
1998
Ellaway A, Macintyre S. Does housing tenure predict health in the UK because it exposes people to different levels of housing related hazards in the home or its surroundings?. Health & Place 1998;4:141-150
pubmedMacintyre S, Ellaway A. Social and local variations in the use of urban neighbourhoods: a case study in Glasgow, Scotland. Health & Place 1998;4:91-94
pubmed1997
Ellaway A, Anderson A S, Macintyre S. Does area of residence affect body size and shape?. International Journal of Obesity 1997;21:304-308
pubmed1996
Ellaway A, Macintyre S. Does where you live predict health-related behaviours? A case study in Glasgow. Health Bulletin 1996;54:443-446
pubmed1995
Sooman A, Macintyre S. Health and perceptions of the local environment in socially contrasting neighbourhoods in Glasgow. Health and Place 1995:15-26
1994
Macintyre S. Socioeconomic variations in Scotland's health: a review. Health Bulletin 1994;52:456-471
1993
Macintyre S, MacIver S, Sooman A. Area, class and health: should we be focusing on places or people?. Journal of Social Policy 1993;22:213-234
Sooman A, Macintyre S, Anderson AS. Scotland's Health - a more difficult challenge for some? The price and availability of healthy foods in socially contrasting localities in the West of Scotland. Health Bulletin 1993;51

