All Outputs (12)

Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England (2024)
Thesis
McClatchey, R. Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11622911

Housing may be the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Despite substantial evidence showing which features of housing are beneficial or detrimental to health, too often people are living in homes which have... Read More about Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England.

An exploration of greenspace metric proximity and NDVI vs configurational accessibility from residential postcodes in the West of England (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Fouad, Z., Sinnett, D., Bray, I., McClatchey, R., & Reece, R. (in press). An exploration of greenspace metric proximity and NDVI vs configurational accessibility from residential postcodes in the West of England.

Greenspaces are recognised as important features of an urban environment which are visited by residents for different purposes. This paper investigates the relationship between residents in the West of England and their surrounding greenspaces, by st... Read More about An exploration of greenspace metric proximity and NDVI vs configurational accessibility from residential postcodes in the West of England.

The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on population health in the UK: Rapid evidence review (2024)
Journal Article
Meadows, J., Montano, M., Alfar, A. J. K., Başkan, Ö. Y., De Brún, C., Hill, J., …Fernandes, G. S. (2024). The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on population health in the UK: Rapid evidence review. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 561. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-17940-0

Background: In the UK, unique and unforeseen factors, including COVID-19, Brexit, and Ukraine-Russia war, have resulted in an unprecedented cost of living crisis, creating a second health emergency. We present, one of the first rapid reviews with the... Read More about The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on population health in the UK: Rapid evidence review.

Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review (2023)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., McClymont, K., Griffin, E., & Carmichael, L. (in press). Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review. International Journal of Housing Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2232200

Community Led Housing (CLH) is an umbrella term encompassing several non-profit models of housing delivery, which is used internationally. There has been little comprehensive assessment of the health impacts of housing arrangements where people inten... Read More about Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review.

Urban climate science for planning healthy cities (2023)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R. (2024). Urban climate science for planning healthy cities. Cities and Health, 8(1), 29. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2241602

‘Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities’ is published by Springer Cham in the book series Biometeorology (BIOMET, volume 5). The book provides an essential reflection on the pressing needs posed by climate change and public health in terms... Read More about Urban climate science for planning healthy cities.

Measures of greenspace exposure and their association to health-related outcomes for the periods before and during 2020’s Lockdown: A cross-sectional study in the West of England (2023)
Journal Article
Fouad, A. Z., Sinnett, D., Bray, I., McClatchey, R., & Reece, R. (2023). Measures of greenspace exposure and their association to health-related outcomes for the periods before and during 2020’s Lockdown: A cross-sectional study in the West of England. Land,

Greenspaces are argued to be one of the important features in the urban environment that impact the health of the population. Previous research suggested either positive, negative or no associations between greenspaces and health-related outcomes. Th... Read More about Measures of greenspace exposure and their association to health-related outcomes for the periods before and during 2020’s Lockdown: A cross-sectional study in the West of England.

The relationship between housing created through Permitted Development Rights and health: A systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Marsh, R., Chang, M., & Wood, J. (2022). The relationship between housing created through Permitted Development Rights and health: A systematic review. Cities and Health, 6(4), 833-852. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1833281

Permitted Development Rights are a regulatory mechanism in the English planning system where the use of a building can be changed bypassing the standard planning process. Other countries have similar arrangements. In England, no assessment of the hea... Read More about The relationship between housing created through Permitted Development Rights and health: A systematic review.

Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England (2020)
Journal Article
Marsh, R., Marco, E., Pilkington, P., & Rice, L. (2022). Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England. Cities and Health, 6(2), 326-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1736738

Architects can play a key role in the wider public health workforce, in ensuring building and urban design is health promoting. However, there is no requirement to teach health by architectural accreditation bodies across Europe. To evaluate the long... Read More about Evaluating a workforce development programme: Bringing public health into architecture education in England.

Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies? (2020)
Journal Article
Carmichael, L., Prestwood, E., Marsh, R., Ige, J., Williams, B., Pilkington, P., …Michalec, A. (2020). Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies?. Science of the Total Environment, 719, Article 137146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137146

Research has demonstrated that housing quality is a key urban intervention in reducing health risks and improving climate resilience, addressing a key ambition of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Yet housing quality remains a problem... Read More about Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies?.

A guide to architecture for the public health workforce (2019)
Journal Article
Marsh, R., Pilkington, P., & Rice, L. (2020). A guide to architecture for the public health workforce. Public Health, 178, 120-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.09.013

Background Public health and environmental challenges facing the world in the 21st century, including the ageing population, increasing urbanisation, rise of non-communicable diseases and climate instability, require an interdisciplinary response.... Read More about A guide to architecture for the public health workforce.

Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review (2019)
Report
Griffin, E., McClymont, K., Carmichael, L., & Marsh, R. (2019). Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review. Power to Change

This report examines existing literature on the relationship between community-led housing (CLH) and health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on identifying what evidence is available and where future research may further strengthen this knowled... Read More about Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review.

The association between crowding within households and behavioural problems in children: Longitudinal data from the Southampton Women’s Survey (2019)
Journal Article
Marsh, R., Salika, T., Crozier, S., Robinson, S., Cooper, C., Godfrey, K., …Baird, J. (2019). The association between crowding within households and behavioural problems in children: Longitudinal data from the Southampton Women’s Survey. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 33(3), 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12550

Background: In England, nearly one child in ten lives in overcrowded housing. Crowding is likely to worsen with increasing population size, urbanisation, and the ongoing concerns about housing shortages. Children with behavioural difficulties are at... Read More about The association between crowding within households and behavioural problems in children: Longitudinal data from the Southampton Women’s Survey.