Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood: An 11-year follow-up of English UKHLS youth questionnaire respondents

Emily T Murray; Avril Keating; Claire Cameron; Rachel Benchekroun; Sam Whewall; Cara Booker; Stephen Jivraj

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103239

Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood: An 11-year follow-up of English UKHLS youth questionnaire respondents

Health Place. 2024 Apr 16:87:103239. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103239. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Emily T Murray¹, Avril Keating², Claire Cameron³, Rachel Benchekroun³, Sam Whewall², Cara Booker⁴, Stephen Jivraj⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1B 7HB, UK; Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK. Electronic address: emily.murray@essex.ac.
² Institute of Education, University College London; , London, WC1B 7HB, UK.
³ Social Research Institute, University College London, London, WC1B 7HB, UK.
⁴ Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Essex; , Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1B 7HB, UK.

PMID: 38631217
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103239

Abstract

We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived communities, and to a greater extent in the most deprived communities that are coastal. For all but self-rated health, associations were robust to additional adjustment for adolescent gender, ethnicity, household income, tenure, and life satisfaction.