Healthy Cities: A Comprehensive Dataset of Environmental Determinants of Health in England Cities

Introduction

This repo is the code for generating the dataset discribed in Nature Scientific Data paper: Healthy Cities, A comprehensive dataset for environmental determinants of health in England cities.

Folder Structure

├── HealthyCitiesDataset
│   ├── environmental_determinants
│   │   ├── basic_statistics 
│   │   │   ├── area
│   │   │   ├── population
│   │   │   ├── boundary
│   │   │   ├── centroid
│   │   ├── health_related_behaviour_environment
│   │   ├── built_environment
│   │   │   ├── house_price
│   │   │   ├── building_density
│   │   │   ├── road_density
│   │   │   ├── street_view_features
│   │   │   ├── walkability
│   │   ├── natural_environment
│   │   │   ├── air_quality
│   │   │   ├── weather
│   ├── health_outcome
│   │   ├── physical_health
│   │   │   ├── asthma
│   │   │   ├── cancer
│   │   │   ├── dementia
│   │   │   ├── diabetes
│   │   │   ├── hyperlipidemia
│   │   │   ├── hypertension
│   │   │   ├── obesity
│   │   │   ├── covid_data
│   │   ├── mental_health
│   │   ├── life_expectancy

Additional Information

For each subsection of the data, we provide detailed README file and metadata in corresponding folder.

We also provide a comprehensive data table that contains all the subsections in all_data.csv.zip (Please uncompress it first). The subsecitons are organized into a long table format with columns as follows:

Column Name Description Example
TopCategory The top category of the dataset. HealthOutcome, EnvironmentalDeterminants
SecondCategory The second category of the dataset. PhysicalHealth, MentalHealth, LifeExpectancy, NaturalEnvironment, BehaviourEnvironment, BuiltEnvironment, BasicStatistics
ThirdCategory The third category of the dataset. DementiaExpenditure, Weather, TobaccoAvailability, RoadDensity, Population
CityCode Exclusive ID for each city. J01000007
CityName Name of the city. Birmingham
MSOACode Exclusive ID for each MSOA. E02001834
MSOAName Name of the MSOA. Birmingham 008
Time Time of the data record. For those without timestamps, we fill None to this column. 2019-01-01
Key Specifications of the record, such as Mean for HousePrice and Female for LifeExpectancy) Mean, Female, PM2.5
Value Value of the data record.