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Table 2 Associations between land cover type density and directly age/sex standardised good/very good health prevalence (%)

From: Beyond greenspace: an ecological study of population general health and indicators of natural environment type and quality

Land Cover Map 2007 Aggregate Class

Model 1: Single land cover types, unadjusted

Model 2: Single land cover types, adjusted for IoD and urbanity

Model 3: Mutually adjusted for all land covers, with IoD and urbanity

LSOA % land cover

B

95% CI

p

B

95% CI

p

B

95% CI

p

Broadleaf woodland

0.184

0.176,0.193

<0.001

0.036

0.033,0.039

<0.001

0.032

0.029,0.035

<0.001

Coniferous woodland

0.221

0.196,0.247

<0.001

0.017

0.008,0.027

<0.001

-0.004

-0.013,0.006

0.449

Arable and horticulture

0.070

0.067,0.073

<0.001

0.002

0.001,0.003

0.002

0.004

0.002,0.005

<0.001

Improved grassland

0.093

0.089,0.097

<0.001

0.018

0.016,0.019

<0.001

0.016

0.014,0.018

<0.001

Semi-natural grassland

0.186

0.173,0.198

<0.001

0.016

0.011,0.020

<0.001

-0.002

-0.007,0.004

0.556

Mountain, heath, bog

0.120

0.102,0.137

<0.001

0.008

0.001,0.014

0.02

0.006

-0.001,0.013

0.082

Saltwater

-0.379

-0.499,-0.259

<0.001

0.072

0.029,0.115

0.001

0.074

0.032,0.117

0.001

Freshwater

0.082

0.054,0.109

<0.001

0.008

-0.002,0.018

0.103

0.000

-0.010,0.010

0.982

Coastal

0.019

-0.004,0.043

0.109

0.014

0.006,0.023

0.001

0.019

0.010,0.027

<0.001

Urban/suburban

-0.061

-0.063,-0.060

<0.001

-0.011

-0.012,-0.010

<0.001

a

  
  1. IoD: Indices of Deprivation. B = change in directly age/sex standardised prevalence (%) of good/very good health associated with one percentage point increase in LSOA land cover density. Bold coefficient - association in hypothesised direction, p < 0.05. Italicised coefficient - association in opposite direction to that hypothesised, p < 0.05.
  2. aUrban/suburban excluded from fully adjusted model.