Day 28: The Blue Planet

Now up to version 4, ‘Access to Healthy Assets and Hazards’ (AHAH) is an index of neighborhood-level access to various health-related assets and hazards. One of the inputs includes a measure of Bluespace given how access to natural environments is known to influence physical and mental wellbeing.

You can view and interactive version of the map here.

Full details can be found in this paper:

Green, M. A., Daras, K., Davies, A., Barr, B., & Singleton, A. (2018). Developing an openly accessible multi-dimensional small area index of ?Access to Healthy Assets and Hazards? For Great Britain, 2016. Health and Place, 54, 11–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.08.019