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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Airwave Health Monitoring Study
Description
The Airwave Tissue Bank is an epidemiological study of police officers and staff in Great Britain. It was established in 2003 to investigate possible long-term health effects associated with use of TETRA, the personal radio system used by the police service.
Participant recruitment was piloted from June 2004 via paper questionnaire and health screen. After two years, the pilot was deemed successful and, with some revisions to the protocol, the main phase of recruitment began in 2006. We toured the country, spending time with police forces keen to enroll their officers and staff. Recruitment ended in March 2015 forming a baseline of approximately 53,000.
In November 2015, we began a programme of follow-up health screens for participants whose previous screen was at least 5-years prior. This continued until the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020. During the following two pandemic years the cohort volunteered for two important components of the REACT Study, making valuable contributions to research into diagnostic methods.
The cohort has been richly phenotyped, flagged to routine records, and has a substantial biobank of blood and urine samples. It provides an excellent and unique resource to study the genetic, metabolic, occupational and lifestyle factors associated with mental health and cognitive performance among a predominantly male and young adult workforce with a well-defined organisational hierarchy.
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Clinical cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Start/End data collection
- 2004 until 2025
Population
- Continents
- Europe
- Countries
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
- Number of participants
- 53000
- Population age groups
- Young adult (18-24 years), Adult (25-44 years), Middle-aged (45-64 years), Aged (65-79 years)
Contributors
Available Data & Samples
Data categories
- Omics
- Genomics
- Epigenomics
- Transcriptomics
- Proteomics
Areas of information
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Socio-demographic
- Socio-economic capital
- Labour force and retirement
- Job history
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Toxic Habits - Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs
- Nutrition
- Physical activity
- Physical environment
- Workplace characteristics
- Chemical exposure
- Chemicals
- Metals & elements
- Noise, traffic, or light
Collection events
List of collection events defined for this resource
| Name | Description | Participants | Start end year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
No results for current selection |
Networks
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