The Environment and Health Atlas for England and Wales is a collection of maps (produced by the Small Area Health Statistics Unit at Imperial College) which illustrate the geographical patterns of environmental agents and diseases. The service has been developed to help explain the variability in disease risk by bringing together information on the environment, lifestyle factors and location.
The service also aims to look at any possible causal links between the environment and health.
The maps contain information on 14 health conditions including COPD, coronary heart disease, various cancers, kidney disease, still birth and low birth weight mapped over a 25 year period (1985 - 2009).
Once you have selected a health condition or environmental agent, you are presented with a map. You can click on a county and then down to (census) ward level. You can also search them by by postcode. The maps will display relative risk of each condition or agent at the ward level.
The Atlas does not aim to give explanations to questions of geography and disease, but is a useful starting point for raising questions and identifying issues for public health.
The service also aims to look at any possible causal links between the environment and health.
The maps contain information on 14 health conditions including COPD, coronary heart disease, various cancers, kidney disease, still birth and low birth weight mapped over a 25 year period (1985 - 2009).
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Once you have selected a health condition or environmental agent, you are presented with a map. You can click on a county and then down to (census) ward level. You can also search them by by postcode. The maps will display relative risk of each condition or agent at the ward level.
The Atlas does not aim to give explanations to questions of geography and disease, but is a useful starting point for raising questions and identifying issues for public health.
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