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Pàgina inicial > Articles > Articles publicats > Environmental heterogeneity in human health studies. A compositional methodology for Land Use and Land cover data |
Data: | 2022 |
Resum: | The use of Land use and Land cover (LULC) data is gradually becoming more widely spread in studies relating the environment to human health. However, little research has acknowledged the compositional nature of these data. The goal of the present study is to explore, for the first time, the independent effect of eight LULC categories (agricultural land, bare land, coniferous forest, broad-leaved forest, sclerophyll forest, grassland and shrubs, urban areas, and waterbodies) on three selected common health conditions: type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), asthma and anxiety, using a compositional methodological approach and leveraging observational health data of Catalonia (Spain) at area level. We fixed the risk exposure scenario using three covariates (socioeconomic status, age group, and sex). Then, we assessed the independent effect of the eight LULC categories on each health condition. Our results show that each LULC category has a distinctive effect on the three health conditions and that the three covariates clearly modify this effect. This compositional approach has yielded plausible results supported by the existing literature, highlighting the relevance of environmental heterogeneity in health studies. In this sense, we argue that different types of environment possess exclusive biotic and abiotic elements affecting distinctively on human health. We believe our contribution might help researchers approach the environment in a more multidimensional manner integrating environmental heterogeneity in the analysis. |
Ajuts: | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FIS2015-71851-P Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PGC-FIS2018-099629-B-I00 Agencia Estatal de Investigación RTI2018-096072-B-I00 Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología CTM2017-86565-C2-1-O Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-1692 Agencia Estatal de Investigación RTI2018-095518-B-C21 |
Nota: | Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB |
Nota: | Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M |
Drets: | Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades. |
Llengua: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Matèria: | Land use and Land cover ; Environmental heterogeneity ; Compositional analysis ; Type 2 diabetes mellitus ; Asthma ; Anxiety |
Publicat a: | Science of the total environment, Vol. 806 (February 2022) , art. 150308, ISSN 1879-1026 |
12 p, 2.6 MB |