Jamie Pearce
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Pearce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearce |
| SIGNATURE | PEARCE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 413 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
How do residents perceive alcohol availability and its impact on drinking behaviour? A qualitative study
This is one of the few papers to explore residents' perspectives of local alcohol availability and its relationship with alcohol use. It highlights that residents view alcohol availability as encompassing more than just the physical presence of outlets, recognising also the variety of outlet types and the connections between availability, pricing, and advertising. Policies to reduce local availability should consider residents' perspectives and a…
“Availability is the poor cousin of marketing and pricing”: Qualitative study of stakeholders’ views on policy priorities around tobacco and alcohol availability
Background: Reducing alcohol and tobacco availability is one potential way to reduce harm from these unhealthy commodities. This study explores key stakeholders' views in relation to policy priorities and considerations for both alcohol and tobacco availability. Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 stakeholders from alcohol and/or tobacco third sector organizations, government, public health and licensing in Scotland. Intervie…
Public and professional stakeholders’ perceptions of alcohol advertising and availability policies: A qualitative study
Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health
Social attributes of neighborhoods, like heritage, and low‐level social disorder, are not reflected in official metrics such as deprivation indices. However, research suggests these attributes are important for understanding spatial variations in health and social outcomes. This exploratory study investigated whether recurring themes in local newspaper articles capture meaningful social characteristics that help explain neighborhood health resili…
Exploring the influence of local alcohol availability on drinking norms and practices: A qualitative scoping review
Unequally Unequal? Contextual-level status inequality and social cohesion moderating the association between individual-level socioeconomic position and systemic chronic inflammation
Inequalities in hs-CRP were greatest among participants living in areas wherein a majority of residents were in advantaged SEPs and social cohesion was low. In other combinations of these contextual characteristics, inequalities in systemic chronic inflammation were not detectable or potentially even reversed
Non-linear association between residential greenness and general health among old adults in China
Neighbourhood greenspace quantity, quality and socioeconomic inequalities in mental health
Dynamic greenspace exposure and residents’ mental health in Guangzhou, China: From over-head to eye-level perspective, from quantity to quality
The distribution of greenspace quantity and quality and their association with neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions in Guangzhou, China: A new approach using deep learning method and street view ima…
The impact of neighbourhood crime on mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Changing levels of local crime and mental health: A natural experiment using self-reported and service use data in Scotland
Background This study contributes robust evidence on the association between mental health and local crime rates by showing how changing exposure to small area-level crime relates to self-reported and administrative data on mental health. Methods The study sample comprised 112 251 adults aged 16–60 years, drawn from the Scottish Longitudinal Study, a 5.3% representative sample of Scottish population followed across censuses. Outcomes were individ…
Liveable for whom? Prospects of urban liveability to address health inequities
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
Scaling up: The politics of health and place
Research into the role of place in shaping inequalities in health has focused largely on examining individual and/or localised drivers, often using a context-composition framing. Whilst this body of work has advanced considerably our understanding of the effects of local environments on health, and re-established an awareness of the importance of place for health, it has done so at the expense of marginalising and minimising the influences of mac…
Alcohol Risk Environments, Vulnerability, and Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption
Alcohol and alcohol related harm are key public health challenges. Research has shown that individual level factors, such as age and sex, are important predictors of alcohol consumption, but such factors provide only a partial account of the drivers of consumption. In this paper we argue that individual level factors interact with features of the 'risk environment' to increase the vulnerability of individuals to such environments. Features of the…
Health‐Related Behaviors
Geographical work has established that health‐related behaviors are affected by a complex array of settings operating across the life course. Health‐related behaviors include smoking, drinking, diet, and physical activity. Place influences and mediates health behaviors at different spatial scales ranging from the macro (e.g., global or national) to the micro (e.g., in schools or workplaces). This entry considers a selection of multiscalar process…
Taking health geography out of the academy: Measuring academic impact
In recent years the academic landscape has been shifting and significantly affected by the introduction of an 'impact agenda'. Academics are increasingly expected to demonstrate their broader engagement with the world and evidence related outcomes. Whilst different countries are at various stages along this impact journey, the UK is the first country to link impact to funding outcomes; here impact now accounts for 20% of an academic unit of asses…
What shape is your neighbourhood? Investigating the micro geographies of physical activity
Could strength of exposure to the residential neighbourhood modify associations between walkability and physical activity
The general and mental health of movers to more- and less-disadvantaged socio-economic and physical environments within the UK
Integrating Environmental Justice and Socioecological Models of Health to Understand Population-Level Physical Activity
The uneven geographical distribution of environmental pathogens and salutogens, as well as the political, social, and cultural antecedents leading to this sociospatial arrangement, have been posited as a partial explanation for the stark inequalities in health across many high-income nations. Whilst there is significant international evidence for the maldistribution of health-related environmental features, few studies have examined the material …
Tackling 'wicked' health promotion problems: A New Zealand case study
This paper reports on a complex environmental approach to addressing 'wicked' health promotion problems devised to inform policy for enhancing food security and physical activity among Māori, Pacific and low-income people in New Zealand. This multi-phase research utilized literature reviews, focus groups, stakeholder workshops and key informant interviews. Participants included members of affected communities, policy-makers and academics. Results…
Commentary
Deprived yet healthy: Neighbourhood-level resilience in New Zealand
Scaling up: The politics of health and place
Research into the role of place in shaping inequalities in health has focused largely on examining individual and/or localised drivers, often using a context-composition framing. Whilst this body of work has advanced considerably our understanding of the effects of local environments on health, and re-established an awareness of the importance of place for health, it has done so at the expense of marginalising and minimising the influences of mac…
Moralising geographies: Stigma, smoking islands and responsible subjects
As the long‐term negative health effects of continued smoking have become more obvious, smoking cessation has become a key focus of government attention across the developed world. Smoking cessation programmes have had mixed outcomes, with rates of smoking in certain socio‐economically disadvantaged and ethnic minority groups remaining high. The increasing stigmatisation of those who continue to smoke, coupled with the spatial segregation of poor…
Neighbourhoods and health: A GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility
Objective: Recent studies suggest an association between the contextual attributes of neighbourhoods and the health status of residents. However, there has been a scarcity of studies that have directly measured the material characteristics of neighbourhoods theorised to have an impact on health and health inequalities. This paper describes the development of an innovative methodology to measure geographical access to a range of community resource…
The general and mental health of movers to more- and less-disadvantaged socio-economic and physical environments within the UK
Liveable for whom? Prospects of urban liveability to address health inequities
Does social inequality matter? Changing ethnic socio-economic disparities and Maori smoking in New Zealand, 1981-1996
Environmental inequalities in New Zealand: A national study of air pollution and environmental justice
The contextual effects of neighbourhood access to supermarkets and convenience stores on individual fruit and vegetable consumption: Table 1
BACKGROUND: It is often suggested that neighbourhood access to food retailers affects the dietary patterns of local residents, but this hypothesis has not been adequately researched. We examine the association between neighbourhood accessibility to supermarkets and convenience stores and individuals' consumption of fruit and vegetables in New Zealand. METHODS: Using geographical information systems, travel times from the population-weighted centr…
Deprived yet healthy: Neighbourhood-level resilience in New Zealand
Nomadic identities and socio-spatial competence: Making Sense of Post-Smoking Selves
The reconstruction of smoking as an unhealthy practice has given rise to a discursive field in which some people shy away from smoking identities that are tainted with the attendant notions of dirt and disgust and also from overt external control over individual behaviour. In many cases individuals demonstrate social competence by quitting smoking. Social and secret smokers challenge both binary understandings of smoking identities (smoker/non-sm…
A national study of neighbourhood access to gambling opportunities and individual gambling behaviour
OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between neighbourhood accessibility to gambling outlets (non-casino gaming machine locations, sports betting venues and casinos) and individual gambling behaviour in New Zealand. DESIGN: A Geographical Information Systems (GIS) measure of neighbourhood access to gambling venues. Two-level logistic regression models were fitted to examine the effects of neighbourhood access on individual gambling behaviour af…
Every Breath You Take? Environmental Justice and Air Pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand
In a number of environmental-justice studies it has been noted that the exposure to an array of air pollutants varies between different social groups. This inequality in exposure is one possible explanation for the variations in pollution-related health outcomes such as lung cancer and other respiratory diseases. Previous environmental-justice studies that have focused upon air pollution have tended to be concerned with exposure to industrial and…
Developing Summary Measures of Health-Related Multiple Physical Environmental Deprivation for Epidemiological Research
Socioeconomic deprivation accounts for much of the spatial inequality in health in the UK, but a significant proportion remains unexplained. It is highly likely that the physical environment is a key factor in this unexplained variation. The role of the socioeconomic environment in health inequalities has been studied using small-area measures of multiple socioeconomic deprivation that capture the burden of socioeconomic adversity. Although simil…
The neighbourhood effects of geographical access to tobacco retailers on individual smoking behaviour
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether neighbourhood measures of geographical accessibility to outlets selling tobacco (supermarkets, convenience stores and petrol stations) are associated with individual smoking behaviour in New Zealand. METHODS: Using geographical information systems, travel times from the population-weighted centroid of each neighbourhood to the closest outlet selling tobacco were calculated for all 38,350 neighbourhoods across New…
Alcohol Risk Environments, Vulnerability, and Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption
Alcohol and alcohol related harm are key public health challenges. Research has shown that individual level factors, such as age and sex, are important predictors of alcohol consumption, but such factors provide only a partial account of the drivers of consumption. In this paper we argue that individual level factors interact with features of the 'risk environment' to increase the vulnerability of individuals to such environments. Features of the…
Neighbourhood Destination Accessibility Index: A GIS Tool for Measuring Infrastructure Support for Neighbourhood Physical Activity
The sharp increase in obesity in recent years has prompted researchers to examine the various pathways through which urban built environments influence population-level physical activity. Walking access to everyday destinations is one such pathway. This paper describes a measure of pedestrian access to neighbourhood destinations. Using eight domains of neighbourhood destinations (education, transport, recreation, social and cultural, food retail,…
Cancer survival in New Zealand: Ethnic, social and geographical inequalities
What shape is your neighbourhood? Investigating the micro geographies of physical activity
Is the urban excess in lung cancer in Scotland explained by patterns of smoking
Could strength of exposure to the residential neighbourhood modify associations between walkability and physical activity
Commentary
The Influence of Selective Migration Patterns Among Smokers and Nonsmokers on Geographical Inequalities in Health
The research reported here uses New Zealand data on smoking behavior that were collected in the 1981, 1996, and 2006 national censuses. Evaluation of the extent to which differential migration patterns among smokers, former smokers, and nonsmokers contributed toward geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand suggests that the effect of selective migration appears to be significant over the long term. This effect includes the arrival of la…
Tackling Global Health Inequalities: Closing the Health Gap in a Generation
There is no abstract for this paper
Neighbourhood greenspace quantity, quality and socioeconomic inequalities in mental health
Have urban/rural inequalities in suicide in New Zealand grown during the period 1980-2001
Does social inequality matter? Changing ethnic socio-economic disparities and Maori smoking in New Zealand, 1981-1996
Is the urban excess in lung cancer in Scotland explained by patterns of smoking
Neighbourhoods and health: A GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility
Objective: Recent studies suggest an association between the contextual attributes of neighbourhoods and the health status of residents. However, there has been a scarcity of studies that have directly measured the material characteristics of neighbourhoods theorised to have an impact on health and health inequalities. This paper describes the development of an innovative methodology to measure geographical access to a range of community resource…
Every Breath You Take? Environmental Justice and Air Pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand
In a number of environmental-justice studies it has been noted that the exposure to an array of air pollutants varies between different social groups. This inequality in exposure is one possible explanation for the variations in pollution-related health outcomes such as lung cancer and other respiratory diseases. Previous environmental-justice studies that have focused upon air pollution have tended to be concerned with exposure to industrial and…
Are socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods deprived of health-related community resources?
BACKGROUND: Recent work in a number of countries has identified growing geographical inequalities in health between deprived and non-deprived neighbourhoods. The health gaps observed cannot be entirely explained by differences in the characteristics of individuals living in those neighbourhoods, which has led to a concerted international public health research effort to determine what contextual features of neighbourhoods matter. This article rep…
Neighborhood Deprivation and Access to Fast-Food Retailing
Environmental inequalities in New Zealand: A national study of air pollution and environmental justice
Moralising geographies: Stigma, smoking islands and responsible subjects
As the long‐term negative health effects of continued smoking have become more obvious, smoking cessation has become a key focus of government attention across the developed world. Smoking cessation programmes have had mixed outcomes, with rates of smoking in certain socio‐economically disadvantaged and ethnic minority groups remaining high. The increasing stigmatisation of those who continue to smoke, coupled with the spatial segregation of poor…
Have urban/rural inequalities in suicide in New Zealand grown during the period 1980-2001
Put on a Jacket, You Wuss: Cultural Identities, Home Heating, and Air Pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand
Central heating, insulation, and double glazing, such as you might find in many countries with colder climates in the northern hemisphere, are virtually lacking in Christchurch, in New Zealand's South Island. In this city, houses tend to be inadequately heated and rely primarily on a combination of open fires, log burners, and electrical heaters. This form of home heating, combined with local climatic and topographical factors, results in high le…
Neighbourhood access to open spaces and the physical activity of residents: A national study
Twelve worlds: A geo-demographic comparison of global inequalities in mortality
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify clusters of nations grouped by health outcomes in order to provide sensible groupings for international comparisons. The utility of this approach is demonstrated by comparing life expectancy and a range of health system indicators within and between each cluster. METHODS: Age- and sex-specific mortality data for 190 member states were extracted from the Burden of Disease Estimates statistics produc…
The contextual effects of neighbourhood access to supermarkets and convenience stores on individual fruit and vegetable consumption: Table 1
BACKGROUND: It is often suggested that neighbourhood access to food retailers affects the dietary patterns of local residents, but this hypothesis has not been adequately researched. We examine the association between neighbourhood accessibility to supermarkets and convenience stores and individuals' consumption of fruit and vegetables in New Zealand. METHODS: Using geographical information systems, travel times from the population-weighted centr…
A national study of neighbourhood access to gambling opportunities and individual gambling behaviour
OBJECTIVE: To investigate associations between neighbourhood accessibility to gambling outlets (non-casino gaming machine locations, sports betting venues and casinos) and individual gambling behaviour in New Zealand. DESIGN: A Geographical Information Systems (GIS) measure of neighbourhood access to gambling venues. Two-level logistic regression models were fitted to examine the effects of neighbourhood access on individual gambling behaviour af…
Regional and Urban–Rural Variations in the Association of Neighbourhood Deprivation with Community Resource Access: A National Study
Recent work has identified growing geographical inequalities in health between deprived and nondeprived areas in a number of countries. Despite the plethora of studies monitoring these trends, the explanations for this growing spatial divide remain unclear. This lack of clarity has been a hindrance to the implementation of strategies by policymakers to reduce health inequalities. One explanation for the noted spatial differences in health is that…
Cancer survival in New Zealand: Ethnic, social and geographical inequalities
The neighbourhood effects of geographical access to tobacco retailers on individual smoking behaviour
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether neighbourhood measures of geographical accessibility to outlets selling tobacco (supermarkets, convenience stores and petrol stations) are associated with individual smoking behaviour in New Zealand. METHODS: Using geographical information systems, travel times from the population-weighted centroid of each neighbourhood to the closest outlet selling tobacco were calculated for all 38,350 neighbourhoods across New…
Is population mixing associated with childhood type 1 diabetes in Canterbury, New Zealand
Community inequality and smoking cessation in New Zealand, 1981-2006
Tackling Global Health Inequalities: Closing the Health Gap in a Generation
There is no abstract for this paper
Nomadic identities and socio-spatial competence: Making Sense of Post-Smoking Selves
The reconstruction of smoking as an unhealthy practice has given rise to a discursive field in which some people shy away from smoking identities that are tainted with the attendant notions of dirt and disgust and also from overt external control over individual behaviour. In many cases individuals demonstrate social competence by quitting smoking. Social and secret smokers challenge both binary understandings of smoking identities (smoker/non-sm…
The Influence of Selective Migration Patterns Among Smokers and Nonsmokers on Geographical Inequalities in Health
The research reported here uses New Zealand data on smoking behavior that were collected in the 1981, 1996, and 2006 national censuses. Evaluation of the extent to which differential migration patterns among smokers, former smokers, and nonsmokers contributed toward geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand suggests that the effect of selective migration appears to be significant over the long term. This effect includes the arrival of la…
Re-engaging with the physical environment: A health-related environmental classification of the UK
This paper presents a health-related area-level multiple environmental classification of the UK and examines ecological associations with health. This classification, akin to a geodemographic profile of the environment, classifies small areas across the UK into seven environment types ranging from ‘Industrial’ to ‘Sunny, clean and green’. The data for the classification were gathered from a range of agencies, rendered to Census Area Statistic War…
Ethnic Spatial Segregation and Tobacco Consumption: A Multilevel Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis of Smoking Prevalence in Urban New Zealand, 1981-1996
The growing literature on the role of ethnic segregation in understanding spatial inequalities in mortality and morbidity has not yet been extended to the study of health-related behaviours. We address this gap in knowledge through an examination of the geography of smoking prevalence in New Zealand, using a multilevel repeated cross-sectional analysis of smoking prevalences in 1981 and 1996 as revealed in the New Zealand census. Smoking prevalen…
Developing Summary Measures of Health-Related Multiple Physical Environmental Deprivation for Epidemiological Research
Socioeconomic deprivation accounts for much of the spatial inequality in health in the UK, but a significant proportion remains unexplained. It is highly likely that the physical environment is a key factor in this unexplained variation. The role of the socioeconomic environment in health inequalities has been studied using small-area measures of multiple socioeconomic deprivation that capture the burden of socioeconomic adversity. Although simil…
Medicine (46 works) · Geography (37 works) · Environmental health (36 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Population (29 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (27 works) · Demography (22 works) · Political science (22 works) · Inequality (20 works) · Psychology (18 works)