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Robin Flowerdew

Research Interests

My areas of research interest include but are not confined to the geography of health. Specific interests in this field include the statistical modelling of geographical variations in health and disease incidence, the relative importance of context and composition in understanding these variations, and the factors affecting the allocation of finance within the National Health Service. In addition, I am interested in the modifiable areal unit problem, which can be regarded as the effect on data analysis of the size and shape of areal units used for reporting health information.

Recent health-related publications

Geddes A and Flowerdew R (2004) ‘The effect of the modifiable areal unit problem in modelling the distribution of limiting long-term illness in Northern England’, in Boyle P, Curtis S, Graham E and Moore E (eds) The geography of health inequalities in the developed world: views from Britain and North America (Ashgate), 267-292

Flowerdew R and Martin D, eds (2005) Methods in human geography: a guide for students doing a research project (2nd edition, Pearson, Harlow)

Exeter D J, Feng Z, Flowerdew R and Boyle P J (2005) 'Shrinking areas and mortality: an artefact of deprivation effects?' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 99, 924-926

Current grants

Scottish Executive. ‘Intermediate geography’ (with Dr Z Feng and J Maslen), 2004

Scottish Enterprise, ‘Describing and explaining migration flows to and from Scotland’ (with Prof. P Boyle, Prof. T Champion, A Green, Prof. P Rees and Dr D Owen), £46,510, June-December 2004

Environment Agency via WRc 'Small area census data for guiding sampling for household waste analysis studies, £1,800, February-March 2005

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