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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
68
Citations
14465
World Ranking
866
National Ranking
163

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Statistics
  • Public health
  • Social science

His primary areas of investigation include Environmental health, Socioeconomic status, Inequality, Public health and Socioeconomics. His research integrates issues of Enterprise GIS, GIS and public health and Risk assessment in his study of Environmental health. His study in Socioeconomic status is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Biostatistics, Risk of mortality and Environmental protection.

He combines subjects such as Economic growth, Multilevel model, Social environment and Demographic economics with his study of Inequality. His Public health research integrates issues from Demography, Logistic regression, Odds and Quartile. His studies in Socioeconomics integrate themes in fields like Health equity, Disadvantaged, Ethnic group and Census.

His most cited work include:

  • A review of intraurban variations in particulate air pollution: Implications for epidemiological research (277 citations)
  • Role of physical activity in the relationship between urban green space and health (251 citations)
  • Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast-food retailing: a national study. (232 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His main research concerns Environmental health, Demography, Inequality, Socioeconomic status and Public health. The study incorporates disciplines such as Cross-sectional study and Tobacco control in addition to Environmental health. His Demography research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Logistic regression, Gerontology, Mental health, Ethnic group and Confounding.

His Mental health research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Disadvantaged and Life course approach. His Inequality research incorporates elements of Economic growth, Development economics and Demographic economics. His Socioeconomic status study frequently draws parallels with other fields, such as Socioeconomics.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Environmental health (28.92%)
  • Demography (19.68%)
  • Inequality (18.47%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Mental health (10.84%)
  • Socioeconomic status (18.07%)
  • Environmental health (28.92%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Jamie Pearce spends much of his time researching Mental health, Socioeconomic status, Environmental health, Longitudinal study and Demography. His research integrates issues of Development economics, Cohort study and Depression in his study of Mental health. Jamie Pearce undertakes multidisciplinary investigations into Socioeconomic status and Legislation in his work.

His Environmental health research includes elements of Focus group, Life course approach and Public health. His study in Economic growth extends to Public health with its themes. His Demography study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Disadvantaged, Environmental exposure and Activities of daily living.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology Reporting Standards (ISLE-ReSt) statement. (26 citations)
  • Scaling up: The politics of health and place. (26 citations)
  • Changing labour market conditions during the ‘great recession’ and mental health in Scotland 2007–2011: an example using the Scottish Longitudinal Study and data for local areas in Scotland (10 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Statistics
  • China
  • Public health

His primary areas of study are Socioeconomic status, Environmental health, Demography, Population health and Social determinants of health. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Young population, Agricultural economics and Tobacco use. In his works, Jamie Pearce performs multidisciplinary study on Environmental health and China.

The various areas that Jamie Pearce examines in his Demography study include Tobacco control, Disadvantaged, Individual mobility and Environmental exposure. His study looks at the relationship between Population health and fields such as Life course approach, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems. His Social determinants of health research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Longitudinal study and Demographic economics.

Best Publications

  • Role of physical activity in the relationship between urban green space and health

    E.A. Richardson;J. Pearce;R. Mitchell;S. Kingham

  • A review of intraurban variations in particulate air pollution: Implications for epidemiological research

    J. Gaines Wilson;Simon Kingham;Jamie Pearce;Andrew P. Sturman

  • Neighborhood Environments and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mental Well-Being

    Richard J. Mitchell;Elizabeth A. Richardson;Niamh K. Shortt;Jamie R. Pearce

  • Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast-food retailing: a national study.

    Jamie Pearce;Tony Blakely;Karen Witten;Phil Bartie

  • Neighbourhoods and health: a GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility

    Jamie Pearce;Karen Witten;Phil Bartie

  • The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

    Jamie Pearce

  • Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to assess the role of the built environment in influencing obesity: a glossary

    Lukar E Thornton;Jamie R Pearce;Anne M Kavanagh

  • Are socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods deprived of health-related community resources?

    Jamie Pearce;Karen Witten;Rosemary Hiscock;Tony Blakely

  • The association between green space and cause-specific mortality in urban New Zealand: an ecological analysis of green space utility

    Elizabeth Richardson;Jamie Pearce;Richard Mitchell;Peter Day

  • Neighbourhood access to open spaces and the physical activity of residents: a national study.

    Karen Witten;Rosemary Hiscock;Jamie Pearce;Tony Blakely

  • Environmental justice and health: the implications of the socio-spatial distribution of multiple environmental deprivation for health inequalities in the United Kingdom

    Jamie R Pearce;Elizabeth A Richardson;Richard J Mitchell;Niamh K Shortt

  • The contextual effects of neighbourhood access to supermarkets and convenience stores on individual fruit and vegetable consumption

    J Pearce;Rosemary Hiscock;T Blakely;K Witten

  • The relationship between wealth and loneliness among older people across Europe: Is social participation protective?

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz;Elizabeth A. Richardson;Helena Tunstall;Niamh K. Shortt

  • Moralising geographies: stigma, smoking islands and responsible subjects

    Lee Thompson;Jamie Pearce;J Ross Barnett

  • Obesity-promoting food environments and the spatial clustering of food outlets around schools.

    Peter L. Day;Jamie Pearce

  • Neighborhood Built Environment and Transport and Leisure Physical Activity: Findings Using Objective Exposure and Outcome Measures in New Zealand

    Karen Witten;Tony Blakely;Nasser Bagheri;Hannah Badland

  • A national study of neighbourhood access to gambling opportunities and individual gambling behaviour

    J Pearce;K Mason;Rosemary Hiscock;P Day

  • Is Neighborhood Access to Health Care Provision Associated with Individual-Level Utilization and Satisfaction?

    Rosemary Hiscock;Jamie Pearce;Tony Blakely;Karen Witten

  • Increasing geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand, 1980–2001

    Jamie Pearce;Danny Dorling

  • Scaling up: The politics of health and place.

    Clare Bambra;Katherine E Smith;Jamie Pearce

  • A national study of the association between neighbourhood access to fast food outlets and the diet and weight of local residents

    Jamie Pearce;Rosemary Hiscock;Tony Blakely;Karen Witten

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Mitchell
Richard Mitchell University of Glasgow
Graham Moon
Graham Moon University of Southampton
Karen Witten
Karen Witten Massey University
Simon Kingham
Simon Kingham University of Canterbury
Sarah Curtis
Sarah Curtis Durham University
Amanda Amos
Amanda Amos University of Edinburgh
Martine Stead
Martine Stead University of Stirling
Anne Marie MacKintosh
Anne Marie MacKintosh University of Stirling
Tony Blakely
Tony Blakely University of Melbourne
Clare Bambra
Clare Bambra Newcastle University

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