The Urban Exposome is the complex mixture of social and environmental factors in the urban environment that collectively have an impact on health. Currently, slightly over 70% of Europe’s population lives in an urban environment. This percentage is expected to exceed 80% by 2030. It is therefore crucial that European urban areas provide a healthy living environment. The EXPANSE project addresses one of the most pertinent questions for urban planners, policy makers, and inhabitants in Europe: “How to maximize health in a modern urban environment?”
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UK Biobank
Description
UK Biobank is a major national health resource, and a registered charity in its own right, with the aim of improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses – including cancer, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, eye disorders, depression and forms of dementia. UK Biobank recruited 500,000 people aged between 40-69 years in 2006-2010 from across the country to take part in this project. They have undergone measures, provided blood, urine and saliva samples for future analysis, detailed information about themselves and agreed to have their health followed. Over many years this will build into a powerful resource to help scientists discover why some people develop particular diseases and others do not.
General Design
- Type
- Biobank
- Start/End data collection
- not available
- PID
- 21.12110/1.3BC5-1B6F-5598
Population
- Continents
- Europe
- Countries
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
Organisations
Lead organisations
- University of SurreyUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)https://www.surrey.ac.uk
Networks
Part of networks