Tom Clemens

Biographic Data

ID6679160
NAMETom Clemens
GIVEN NAMESTom
FAMILY NAMEClemens
SIGNATURECLEMENS T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0002-6979-0026
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Understanding How Green Space Accessibility and Utilisation Relate to Common Mental Health

    Open AccessXianghui Zhang, Mark Green et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • How do residents perceive alcohol availability and its impact on drinking behaviour? A qualitative study

    Open AccessElena Dimova, Elena D Dimova et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026References: 7

    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”

    Open AccessElena Dimova, Elena D Dimova et al.ARTICLEDrugs Education Prevention and…2025

    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

    Open AccessElena Dimova, Niamh K Shortt et al.ARTICLEDrug and Alcohol Review2025

  • Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality

    Open AccessAndrew C Stevenson, Tom Clemens et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2024References: 1

    We aimed to examine associations between ultraviolet (UV) exposure and mortality among older adults in the United Kingdom (UK). We used data from UK Biobank participants with two UV exposures, validated with measured vitamin D levels: solarium use and annual average residential shortwave radiation. Associations between the UV exposures, all-cause and cause-specific mortality were examined as adjusted hazard ratios. The UV exposures were inversely…

  • Exploring the influence of local alcohol availability on drinking norms and practices

    Open AccessElena Dimova, Peter Lekkas et al.ARTICLEDrug and Alcohol Review2023

  • Spatiotemporal Modeling of the Association between Neighborhood Factors and Covid-19 Incidence Rates in Scotland

    Ruoyu Wang, Tom Clemens et al.ARTICLEThe Professional Geographer2023

    This study aims to investigate the association between neighborhood-level factors and COVID-19 incidence in Scotland from a spatiotemporal perspective. The outcome variable is the COVID-19 incidence in Scotland. Based on the identification of the wave peaks for COVID-19 cases between 2020 and 2021, confirmed COVID-19 cases in Scotland can be divided into four phases. To model the COVID-19 incidence, sixteen neighborhood factors are chosen as the …

  • The island effect

    Open AccessKathryn Halliday, Tom Clemens et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2022

    Mental illness is the leading cause of disability in the UK, placing huge burden on individuals and society. This study explores how mental health outcomes relate to living in more geographically remote neighbourhoods and the role of neighbourhood-level social character. Administrative, health and census databases were linked for a 5% sample of those aged 23-68 (n= 114,428) living in Scotland, between the years 2009-2014. Self-reported mental ill…

  • Neighbourhood tobacco supply and individual maternal smoking during pregnancy

    Open AccessTom Clemens, Chris Dibben et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2018

    The results provide the strongest evidence to date of an association between the neighbourhood availability of tobacco and smoking, and the first to do so among pregnant women. These findings provide supportive evidence for interventions targeting the supply of tobacco products in achieving the endgame

  • Changes in mortality inequalities over two decades

    Open AccessJ P Mackenbach, Ivana Kulhánová et al.ARTICLEBMJ2016

    OBJECTIVE: To determine whether government efforts in reducing inequalities in health in European countries have actually made a difference to mortality inequalities by socioeconomic group. DESIGN: Register based study. DATA SOURCE: Mortality data by level of education and occupational class in the period 1990-2010, usually collected in a census linked longitudinal study design. We compared changes in mortality between the lowest and highest soci…