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Bathing and Healthy Cities: Some reflections on urban environments

  • Simon Huston (Speaker)

    Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

    Description

    The pandemic exposed regional health inequality and urban infrastructure neglect. UK is one of the unhealthiest developed nations (> 35% of obese by 2025)
    Local sports infrastructure is patchy
    Backdrop UK health challenge
    Literature review
    Historical context (Ancient Rome)
    Structured literature review of sports facilities & health
    Quantitative
    Statistical analysis of English local area standardised mortality, pool density, deprivation, obesity & environmental factors
    Longitudinal time series modelling of English swimming pool construction data (120 years)
    Qualitative: 3 X case studies
    Synthesis
    Period4 Mar 2022
    Event titleInternational symposium: Post pandemic urban revolution- Resilience, autonomy and community care
    Event typeConference
    LocationKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaShow on map

    Keywords

    • Urban instrastructure
    • health
    • swimming pools
    • Investment
    • sustainability

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Geography, Planning and Development

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