Frank Popham

TL;DR: The association between income deprivation and mortality differed significantly across the groups of exposure to green space for mortality from all causes and circulatory disease, but not from lung cancer or intentional self-harm, which suggests physical environments that promote good health might be important to reduce socioeconomic health inequalities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between income deprivation and mortality in the UK and found that those living in the greenest areas had the lowest levels of health inequality related to income deprivation.

TL;DR: A higher proportion of greenspace in an area was generally associated with better population health, however, this association varied according to the combination of area income deprivation and urbanity.

TL;DR: Natural experiment (NE) approaches are attracting growing interest as a way of providing evidence in such circumstances as discussed by the authors, and one key challenge in evaluating NEs is selective exposure to the intervention.

TL;DR: The technical implementation of DataSHIELD is described, using a modified R statistical environment linked to an Opal database deployed behind the computer firewall of each DC, which is currently used by the Healthy Obese Project and the Environmental Core Project for the federated analysis of 10 data sets across eight European countries.