{"title":"Patterns of social inequality in arts and cultural participation: Findings from a nationally representative sample of adults living in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.","authors":"Hei Wan Mak, Rory Coulter, Daisy Fancourt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>A significant amount of literature indicates the health benefits of arts engagement. However, as this engagement is socially patterned, differential access to and participation in the arts may contribute to social and health inequalities.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to uncover the patterns of participation in arts activities and engagement with culture and heritage among adults in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and to examine whether such patterns are associated with demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>We applied latent class analysis to data on arts and cultural participation among 30 695 people in the Understanding Society study. Multinomial logistic regression was used to identify predictors for the patterns of activity engagement.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For arts participation, adults were clustered into \"engaged omnivores,\" \"visual and literary arts,\" \"performing arts\" and \"disengaged.\" For cultural engagement, adults were clustered into \"frequently engaged,\" \"infrequently engaged\" and \"rarely engaged.\" Regression analysis showed that the patterns of arts activity were structured by demographic and socioeconomic factors.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study reveals a social gradient in arts and cultural engagement. Given the health benefits of arts engagement, this suggests the importance of promoting equal access to arts and cultural programmes, to ensure that unequal engagement does not exacerbate health inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":92713,"journal":{"name":"Public health panorama : journal of the WHO Regional Office for Europe = Panorama obshchestvennogo zdravookhraneniia","volume":"6 1","pages":"55-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7613128/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40536097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James Milner, Jonathon Taylor, Mauricio L Barreto, Mike Davies, Andy Haines, Colin Harpham, Meena Sehgal, Paul Wilkinson
{"title":"Environmental Risks of Cities in the European Region: Analyses of the Sustainable Healthy Urban Environments (SHUE) Database.","authors":"James Milner, Jonathon Taylor, Mauricio L Barreto, Mike Davies, Andy Haines, Colin Harpham, Meena Sehgal, Paul Wilkinson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>In an increasingly urbanized world, cities are a key focus for action on health and sustainability. The Sustainable Healthy Urban Environments (SHUE) project aims to provide a shared information resource to support such action. Its aim is to test the feasibility and methods of assembling data about the characteristics of a globally distributed sample of cities and the populations within them for comparative analyses, and to use such data to assess how policies may contribute to sustainable urban development and human health.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>As a first illustration of the database, we present analyses of selected parameters on climate change, air pollution and flood risk for 64 cities in the WHO European Region.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Under a high greenhouse gas emissions trajectory (RCP8.5), the analyses suggest damaging temperature rises in European cities that are among the highest of any cities in the global database, while air pollution (PM<sub>2.5</sub>) levels are appreciably above the WHO guideline level for all but a handful of cities. In several areas, these environmental hazards are compounded by flood risk.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Such evidence, though preliminary and based on limited data, underpins the need for urgent action on climate change (adaptation and mitigation) and risks relating to air pollution and other environmental hazards.</p>","PeriodicalId":92713,"journal":{"name":"Public health panorama : journal of the WHO Regional Office for Europe = Panorama obshchestvennogo zdravookhraneniia","volume":"3 2","pages":"300-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/dc/75/EMS83180.PMC6597354.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37370941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}