Urban green space and obesity in older adults: Evidence from Ireland

Urban green space and obesity in older adults: Evidence from Ireland

We examine the association between living in an urban area with more or less green space and the probability of being obese. This work involves the creation of a new dataset which combines geo-coded data at the individual level from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing with green space data from t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Seraphim Dempsey, Seán Lyons, Anne Nolan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2018-04-01
Series:	SSM: Population Health
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827317302203

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