Prof Rich Mitchell
- Professor (Public Health)
telephone: 01413301663
email: Richard.Mitchell@glasgow.ac.uk
Dr Mitchell’s work focuses on monitoring, explaining and tackling social and spatial inequalities in health, with particular emphasis on cardiovascular disease. He has achieved Scottish, UK and international recognition for his work on the roles which both socio-economic and physical environments play in creating and maintaining inequalities in health and is currently developing a particular focus on the positive and negative influences of physical environment on health.
2013
Baker, J., Mitchell, R., and Pell, J. (2013) Cross-sectional study of ethnic differences in the utility of area deprivation measures to target socioeconomically deprived individuals. Social Science and Medicine, 85 . pp. 27-31. ISSN 0277-9536 (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.02.025)
Lee, D., and Mitchell, R. (2013) Locally adaptive spatial smoothing using conditional autoregressive models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) . ISSN 0035-9254 (doi:10.1111/rssc.12009) (In Press)
Mitchell, R. (2013) Is physical activity in natural environments better for mental health than physical activity in other environments? Social Science and Medicine . ISSN 0277-9536 (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.04.012) (In Press)
Richardson, E.A., Pearce, J., Mitchell, R., and Kingham, S. (2013) Role of physical activity in the relationship between urban green space and health. Public Health . ISSN 0033-3506 (doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2013.01.004) (In Press)
Richardson, E.R., Pearce, J., Mitchell, R., and Shortt, N.K. (2013) A regional measure of neighborhood multiple environmental deprivation: relationships with health and health inequalities. Professional Geographer, 65 (1). pp. 153-170. ISSN 0033-0124 (doi:10.1080/00330124.2012.660457)
2012
Shortt, N.K., Richardson, E.A., Pearce, J., and Mitchell, R.J. (2012) Mortality inequalities by environment type in New Zealand. Health and Place, 18 (5). pp. 1132-1136. ISSN 1353-8292 (doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.04.008)
Ward Thompson, C., Roe, J., Aspinall, P., Mitchell, R., Clow, A., and Miller, D. (2012) More green space is linked to less stress in deprived communities: evidence from salivary cortisol patterns. Landscape and Urban Planning, 105 (3). pp. 221-229. ISSN 0169-2046 (doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.12.015)
Lee, D., and Mitchell, R. (2012) Boundary detection in disease mapping studies. Biostatistics, 13 . pp. 415-426. ISSN 1465-4644 (doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxr036)
Niedzwiedz, C.L., Katikireddi, S.V., Pell, J.P., and Mitchell, R. (2012) Life course socio-economic position and quality of life in adulthood: a systematic review of life course models. BMC Public Health, 12 (628). ISSN 1471-2458 (doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-628)
Tunstall, H., Mitchell, R., Gibbs, J., and Platt, S. (2012) Socio-demographic diversity and unexplained variation in death rates among the most deprived parliamentary constituencies in Britain. Journal of Public Health, 34 (2). pp. 296-304. ISSN 1741-3842 (doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdr078)
2011
Dujardin, C., Farfan-Portet, M., Mitchell, R., Popham, F., Thomas, I., and Lorant, V. (2011) Does country influence the health burden of informal care? An international comparison between Belgium and Great Britain. Social Science and Medicine, 73 (8). pp. 1123-1132. ISSN 0277-9536 (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.016)
Mitchell, R., and Bushby, R. (2011) The impact of John Muir Award experiences on the health-related behaviours, attitudes and aspirations of participants. In: Marrs, S.J., Foster, S., Hendrie, C., Mackey, E.C. and Thompson, D.B.A. (eds.) The Changing Nature of Scotland. TSO Scotland, pp. 133-138.
Mitchell, R., Dujardin, C., Popham, F., Farfan Portet, M., Thomas, I., and Lorant, V. (2011) Using matched areas to explore international differences in population health. Social Science and Medicine, 73 (8). pp. 1113-1122. ISSN 0277-9536 (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.015)
Park, J.J., O'Brien, L., Roe, J., Ward Thompson, C., and Mitchell, R. (2011) The natural outdoors and health: Assessing the value and potential contribution of secondary public data sets in the UK to current and future knowledge. Health and Place, 17 (1). pp. 269-279. ISSN 13538292 (doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.11.005)
Mitchell, R., Astell-Burt, T., and Richardson, E.A. (2011) A comparison of green space indicators for epidemiological research. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 65 (10). pp. 853-858. ISSN 0143-005X (doi:10.1136/jech.2010.119172)
Pearce, J.R., Richardson, E.A., Mitchell, R.J., and Shortt, N.K. (2011) Environmental justice and health: A study of multiple environmental deprivation and geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand. Social Science and Medicine, 73 (3). pp. 410-420. ISSN 0277-9536 (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.039)
Richardson, E.A., Mitchell, R., Hartig, T., de Vries, S., Astell-Burt, T., and Frumkin, H. (2011) Green cities and health: a question of scale? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health . ISSN 0143-005X (doi:10.1136/jech.2011.137240)
2010
Hart, C.L., Morrison, D.S., Batty, G.D., Mitchell, R.J., and Davey Smith, G. (2010) Effect of body mass index and alcohol consumption on liver disease: analysis of data from two prospective cohort studies. British Medical Journal, 340 . c1240. ISSN 0959-535X (doi:10.1136/bmj.c1240)
Shortt, N.K., Richardson, E.A., Mitchell, R., and Pearce, J. (2010) Re-engaging with the physical environment: a health-related environmental classification of the UK. Area, 43 (1). pp. 76-87. ISSN 0004-0894 (doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00960.x)
Webster, D., Arnott, J., Brown, J., Turok, I., Mitchell, R., and MacDonald, E.B. (2010) Falling Incapacity Benefit claims in a former industrial city: policy impacts or labour market improvement? Policy Studies, 31 (2). pp. 163-185. ISSN 0144-2872 (doi:10.1080/01442870903429611)
Hart, C.L., Batty, G.D., Morrison, DS., Mitchell, R.J., and Davey Smith, G. (2010) Obesity, overweight and liver disease in the Midspan prospective cohort studies. International Journal of Obesity, 34 (6). pp. 1051-1059. ISSN 0307-0565 (doi:10.1038/ijo.2010.20)
Ogilvie, D., Mitchell, R., Mutrie, N., Petticrew, M., and Platt, S. (2010) Shoe leather epidemiology: active travel and transport infrastructure in the urban landscape. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 7 (1). p. 43. ISSN 1479-5868 (doi:10.1186/1479-5868-7-43)
Pearce, J.R., Richardson, E.A., Mitchell, R.J., and Shortt, N.K. (2010) Environmental justice and health: the implications of the socio-spatial distribution of multiple environmental deprivation for health inequalities in the United Kingdom. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35 (4). pp. 522-539. ISSN 0020-2754 (doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00399.x)
Richardson, E., Pearce, J., Mitchell, R., Day, P., and Kingham, S. (2010) The association between green space and cause-specific mortality in urban New Zealand: an ecological analysis of green space utility. BMC Public Health, 10 (1). p. 240. ISSN 1471-2458 (doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-240)
Richardson, E.A., and Mitchell, R. (2010) Gender differences in relationships between urban green space and health in the United Kingdom. Social Science and Medicine, 71 (3). pp. 568-575. ISSN 0277-9536 (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.04.015)
Richardson, E.A., Mitchell, R., Shortt, N.K., Pearce, J., and Dawson, T.P. (2010) Developing summary measures of health-related multiple physical environmental deprivation for epidemiological research. Environment and Planning A, 42 (7). pp. 1650-1668. ISSN 0308-518X (doi:10.1068/a42459)
Richardson, E.A., Shortt, N.K., and Mitchell, R.J. (2010) The mechanism behind environmental inequality in Scotland: which came first, the deprivation or the landfill? Environment and Planning A, 42 (1). pp. 223-240. ISSN 0308-518X (doi:10.1068/a41376)
Shortt, N.K., Richardson, E.A., Mitchell, R., and Pearce, J. (2010) Re-engaging with the physical environment: a health-related environmental classification of the UK. Area, 43 (1). pp. 76-87. ISSN 0004-0894 (doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2010.00960.x)
Walker, J., and Mitchell, R. (2010) Evaluating the health impacts of central heating. In: Morrell, J. (ed.) Evaluation in the Face of Uncertainty: Anticipating Surprise and Responding to the Inevitable. The Guilford Press, New York, pp. 244-248. ISBN 978-1606238578
2009
Richardson, E.A., Mitchell, R.J., Shortt, N.K., Pearce, J., and Dawson, T.P. (2009) Evidence-based selection of environmental factors and datasets for measuring multiple environmental deprivation in epidemiological research. Environmental Health, 8 (Supple). S18. (doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-S1-S18)
Emslie, C., and Mitchell, Ri. (2009) Are there gender differences in the geography of alcohol-related mortality in Scotland? An ecological study. BMC Public Health, 9 (58). ISSN 1471-2458 (doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-58)
Walker, J., Mitchell, R., Petticrew, M., and Platt, S. (2009) The effects on health of a publicly funded domestic heating programme: a prospective controlled study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , 63 (1). pp. 12-17. ISSN 0143-005X (doi:10.1136/jech.2008.074096)
Duncan, L., Ferguson, C., and Mitchell, R.J. (2009) Air pollution and health in Scotland: a multicity study. Biostatistics, 10 (3). pp. 409-423. ISSN 1465-4644 (doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxp010)
Mitchell, R., Gibbs, J, Tunstall, H, Platt, SD, and Dorling, D (2009) Factors which nurture geographical resilience in Britain: a mixed methods study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63 (1). pp. 18-23. ISSN 0143-005X (doi:10.1136/jech.2007.072058)
Walker, J., Mitchell, R.J., Petticrew, M., and Platt, S. (2009) The effects on health of a publicly funded domestic heating programme: a prospective controled study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63 (1). pp. 12-19. ISSN 0143-005X (doi:10.1136/jech.2008.074096)
2008
Mitchell, R., and Popham, F. (2008) Effect of exposure to natural environment on health inequalities: an observational population study. Lancet, 372 (9650). pp. 1655-1660. ISSN 0140-6736 (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61689-X)
Ogilvie, D., Mitchell, R., Mutrie, N., Petticrew, M., and Platt, S. (2008) Perceived characteristics of the environment associated with active travel: development and testing of a new scale. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 5 (32). ISSN 1479-5868 (doi:10.1186/1479-5868-5-32)
Batty, GD, Shipley, MJ, Kivimaki, M, Barzi, F, Davey Smith, G, Mitchell, RJ, Marmot, MG, and Huxley, R (2008) Obesity and overweight in relation to liver disease mortality in men: 38 year follow-up of the original Whitehall study. International Journal of Obesity, 32 (11). pp. 1741-1744. ISSN 0307-0565
Davidson, R, Mitchell, RJ, and Hunt, K (2008) Location, location, location: The role of experience of disadvantage in lay perceptions of area inequalities in health. Health and Place, 14 (2). pp. 167-181. ISSN 1353-8292
Ogilvie, D., Mitchell, R.J., Mutrie, N., Petticrew, M, and Platt, S. (2008) Personal and environmental correlates of active travel and physical activity in a deprived urban population. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 5 (1). p. 43. ISSN 1479-5868
2007
Dorling, D, Mitchell, R, and Pearce, J (2007) The global impact of income inequality on health by age: an observational study. British Medical Journal, 335 . pp. 873-875. ISSN 0959-535X (doi:10.1136/bmj.39349.507315.DE)
Dorling, D., Wheeler, B., Shaw, M., and Mitchell, R. (2007) Counting the 21st century children of Britain: the extent of advantage and disadvantage. Twenty-First Century Society, 2 (2). pp. 173-189.
Mitchell, R, and Popham, F (2007) Greenspace, urbanity and health: relationships in England. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61 (8). pp. 681-683.
Popham, F, and Mitchell, R (2007) Relation of employment status to socioeconomic position and physical activity types. Preventive Medicine, 45 (02-Mar). pp. 182-188.
Popham, F, and Mitchell, R (2007) Self-rated life expectancy and lifetime socio-economic position: cross-sectional analysis of the British household panel survey. International Journal of Epidemiology, 36 (1). pp. 58-65.
Popham, F, Walker, JJ, and Mitchell, R (2007) Could using general health and longstanding limiting illness as a joint health outcome add to understanding in social inequalities research? Journal of Public Health, 29 (2). pp. 208-210.
Sridharan, S, Tunstall, H, Lawder, R, and Mitchell, R (2007) An exploratory spatial data analysis approach to understanding the relationship between deprivation and mortality in Scotland. Social Science and Medicine, 65 (9). pp. 1942-1952.
Tunstall, H, Mitchell, R, Gibbs, J, Platt, S, and Dorling, D (2007) Is economic adversity always a killer? Disadvantaged areas with relatively low mortality rates. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61 . pp. 337-343. (doi:10.1136/jech.2006.049890)
2006
Lawlor, DA, Davey, SG, Mitchell, R, and Ebrahim, S (2006) Adult Blood Pressure and Climate Conditions in Infancy: A Test of the Hypothesis that Dehydration in Infancy Is Associated with Higher Adult Blood Pressure. American Journal of Epidemiology, 163 (7). pp. 608-614. ISSN 0002-9262
Mitchell, R (2006) Evaluating health effects of transport interventions methodologic case study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 31 (2). pp. 118-126. (doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2006.03.030)
Mitchell, R, Wheeler, B, Shaw, M, and Dorling, D (2006) What can the 2001 census tell us about education in Scotland? Scottish Educational Review, 38 (1). p. 54.
Ogilvie, D, Mitchell, RJ, Mutrie, N, Petticrew, M, and Platt, S (2006) Evaluating Health Effects of Transport Interventions: Methodologic Case Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 31 (2). pp. 118-126.
Popham, F, and Mitchell, R (2006) Leisure time exercise and personal circumstances in the working age population: longitudinal analysis of the British household panel survey. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60 (3). pp. 270-274.
Walker, JJ, Mitchell, R, Platt, SD, Petticrew, MP, and Hopton, J (2006) Does usage of domestic heating influence internal environmental conditions and health? European Journal of Public Health, 16 (5). pp. 463-469. ISSN 1101-1262 (doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki186)
2005
Dorling, D, Mitchell, R, Orford, S, Shaw, M, and Davey, SG (2005) Inequalities and christmas yet to come. British Medical Journal, 331 (7529). p. 1409. ISSN 0959-535X
Mitchell, R (2005) Commentary: The decline of death - how do we measure and interpret changes in self-reported health across cultures and time? International Journal of Epidemiology, 34 (2). pp. 306-308.
Mitchell, R, Fowkes, G, Blane, D, and Bartley, M (2005) High rates of ischaemic heart disease in Scotland are not explained by conventional risk factors. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59 . pp. 565-567. (doi:10.1136/jech.2004.029850)
Shaw, M, Dorling, D, Mitchell, R, and Smith, GD (2005) Labour's 'Black report' moment? British Medical Journal, 331 (7516). p. 575. ISSN 0959-535X
2004
Lawlor, DA, Smith, GD, Mitchell, R, and Ebrahim, S (2004) Temperature at birth, coronary heart disease, and insulin resistance: cross sectional analyses of the British women's heart and health study. Heart, 90 (4). pp. 381-388. (doi:10.1136/hrt.2002.009548)
2002
Davey-Smith, G, Dorling, D, Mitchell, R, and Shaw, M (2002) Health inequalities in Britain: continuing increases up to the end of the 20th century. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 56 . pp. 434-435.
Martin, D, Dorling, D, and Mitchell, R (2002) Linking censuses through time: problems and solutions. Area, 34 . pp. 82-91.
Mitchell, R, Blane, D, and Bartley, M (2002) Elevated risk of high blood pressure: climate and the inverse housing law. International Journal of Epidemiology, 31 . pp. 831-838.
Mitchell, R, Dorling, D, Martin, D, and Simpson, L (2002) Bringing the missing million home: correcting the 1991 small area statistics for undercount. Environment and Planning A, 34 . pp. 1021-1035. (doi:10.1068/a34161)
Mitchell, R, Dorling, D, and Shaw, M (2002) Population production and modelling mortality - an application of geographic information systems in health inequalities research. Health and Place, 8 . pp. 15-24.
Mitchell, R.J., Dorling, D., and Shaw, M. (2002) Population production and modelling mortality-an application of geographic information systems in health inequalities research. Health and Place, 8 (1). pp. 15-24. ISSN 1353-8292
Orford, S, Dorling, D, Mitchell, R, Shaw, M, and Davey Smith, G (2002) Life and death of the people of London: a historical GIS of Charles Booth's inquiry. Health and Place, 8 . pp. 25-35. ISSN 1353-8292
2001
Mitchell, R (2001) Commentary: Short days-shorter lives: studying winter mortality to get solutions. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30 (5). pp. 1116-1118.
Mitchell, R (2001) Multilevel modeling might not be the answer. Environment and Planning A, 33 (8). pp. 1357-1360.
Stafford, M, Bartley, M, Mitchell, R, and Marmot, M (2001) Characteristics of individuals and characteristics of areas: investigating their influence on health in the Whitehall II study. Health and Place, 7 . pp. 117-129. ISSN 1353-8292
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- A rigorous statistical framework for estimating the long-term health effects of air pollution.
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
2013 - 2016
- The M74 study: longitudinal follow-up for the health effects of a new urban motorway.
National Institute for Health Research
2013 - 2015
- How effective is the Forestry Commission Scotland's woodland improvement programme - 'Woods In and Around Towns' (WIAT) - at improving psychological wellbeing in deprived communities?
National Institute for Health Research
2012 - 2016
- Youth tobacco and alcohol environments in Scotland and the relationship with risky behaviours.
Scottish Government Health Directorates
2012 - 2013
- A Scottish Observatory for Work and Health
Glasgow Centre for Population Health
2011 - 2012
- PhyBEHI: Physical built environments and health inequalities
European Commission
2011 - 2016
- Multiple environmental deprivation and health inequalities: unpacking the pathways
ESRC
2011 - 2012
- Preparing a baseline from which to measure "Big Society".
AHRC
2010 - 2011
- Connecting health, health-behaviour and place through the work of community gardening
Arts and Humanities Research Council
2010 - 2011
- Allowing for cliffs and slopes in the risk surface when modelling small-area spatial data
ESRC
2010 - 2012
- Obesity and overweight in relation in liver disease in the midspan studies
Scottish Executive Health Department
2009 - 2009
- Society's relationship with the natural world and the role of outdoors in health and wellbeing
ESRC
2009 - 2010
- Health Impacts of the John Muir Award
Glasgow Centre for Population Health
2009 - 2010
- Exploratory award - multiple environmental classification of areas for researching spatial health inequalities
Natural Environment Research Council
2008 - 2010
- The outdoor environment as a means of tackling poor health and health inequalities
Forestry Commission
2008 - 2009
- Tackling Health Inequalities in Belgium
Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels Belgium
2008 - 2009
- A Scottish Observatory for Work and Health
Glasgow Centre for Population Health
2008 - 2011
- Analysis of Public Policies on Planning and Managing the Enviroment
Rural and Environment Research and Analysis
2008 - 2012
- A Scottish Observatory for Work and Health
Glasgow Centre for Population Health
2007 - 2007
- A Scottish Observatory for Work and Health
Glasgow Centre for Population Health
2006 - 2007
