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This thesis explores the question of whether correlations between socioeconomic indicators and he... more This thesis explores the question of whether correlations between socioeconomic indicators and health and environmental indicators can be observed at the metropolitan level of analysis. Indicators are considered both in terms of per capita values and scale-adjusted values. Scale-adjusted values are a concept based on research on urban scaling which account for the agglomeration effect of population on socioeconomic output and describe a city’s performance in terms of how it compares with expected performance on an indicator for its population size based on the power law scaling of that indicator to population. These indicators provide an alternative baseline for comparing the relative economic performance of cities of different sizes. Considering these scale-adjusted indicators a potentially more meaningful measure of socioeconomic performance, they were expected to correlate with health and environmental outcomes better than per capita values, although this was only true for median...
This thesis explores the question of whether correlations between socioeconomic indicators and he... more This thesis explores the question of whether correlations between socioeconomic indicators and health and environmental indicators can be observed at the metropolitan level of analysis. Indicators are considered both in terms of per capita values and scale-adjusted values. Scale-adjusted values are a concept based on research on urban scaling which account for the agglomeration effect of population on socioeconomic output and describe a city’s performance in terms of how it compares with expected performance on an indicator for its population size based on the power law scaling of that indicator to population. These indicators provide an alternative baseline for comparing the relative economic performance of cities of different sizes. Considering these scale-adjusted indicators a potentially more meaningful measure of socioeconomic performance, they were expected to correlate with health and environmental outcomes better than per capita values, although this was only true for median...