Urban Regeneration, Mental Health and Quality of Life in Wythenshawe, South Manchester
- Abstract
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The aim of this study was to achieve a better understanding of: the role played by urban regeneration in altering the degree and distribution of socio-economic variations in mental health; the impact of socio-economic changes on people with differential vulnerability to the development of common mental illness; the measurement of subjective well-being in urban settings and what factors contribute to its improvement or maintenance during socio-economic change.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Individuals' mental health, quality of life (QOL), personal circumstances and consulting behaviour.
- Variables
- http://www.data-archive.ac.[…]&class=0&from=sn#gs
- Keywords
- Greater Manchester, age, alcohol consumption, anxiety, assault, associations, children, clubs, community behaviour, community life, consumer goods, crime, criminal damage, death, debilitative illness, depression, development, disabilities, dogs, drug abuse, economic activity, educational background, emotional states, employment, employment opportunities, ethnic groups, everyday life, family members, fear of crime, financial resources, friends, gender, general practitioners, greater manchester, happiness, health, health consultations, health services, height (physiology), home ownership, households, housing, housing conditions, housing tenure, income, job changing job security, juvenile delinquency, landlords, leisure time activities, local community facilities, local government, marital status, membership, mental health, motor vehicles, neighbourhoods, neighbours, objectives, parents, personal contact, personality, playgrounds, police services, poverty, public transport, qualifications, quality of life, redundancy, refuse, rented accommodation, residential mobility, retirement, roads, safety and security, safety and security measures, self-employed, self-esteem, shops, social activities (leisure), social change, social housing, social integration, social life, social security benefits, social support, stress (psychological), students, supervisory status, theft, traffic, unemployment, urban renewal, urban sociology, weight (physiology), working time, youth
- Identifier Variables
- Enumeration districts, postcode, electoral ward
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Mental health
- Area of Health System
- Secondary care
- Data collecting organization (s)
- King's College London. Institute of Psychiatry. Health Services Research Department and University of Manchester. Department of Geography and National Primary Care Research and Development Centre and University of Manchester. Department of Geography
- Data Type
- Survey (longitudinal)
- National/Regional
- Regional
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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Adult residents of five electoral wards of Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 4294 questionnaires and interviews obtained
- Availability
- ESDS Qualidata, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=4410
- Contact
- qualidata@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- Huxley P and Rogers A. Urban regeneration and mental health. Health Variations Newsletter 2001; 7: 8-9