Publications

Books

Journal articles & book chapters

In Press

  • Wilson LB, Angus C, Brennan A, Gillespie D, Shortt N, Tunstall H, Valiente R, Pearce J, 2025. Quantile regression of tobacco tax pass-through in the UK 2017- 2021: How have manufacturers passed through tax changes for different tobacco products in small retailers? Analysis at the national level and by neighbourhood of deprivation. Tobacco Control. In Press.
  • Tunstall H, Wilson LB, Valiente R, Shortt N, Angus C, Brennan A, Gillespie D, Pearce J, 2025. Purchase price of tobacco in small retailers in Great Britain: the relationships with neighbourhood deprivation and urbanicity between 2016-2021. Tobacco Control. In Press.
  • MacGregor A, Shields J, Hamid A, Holman E, Biggs H, Minty S, Pearce J. Ford A, 2025. ‘I’d rather have worse gums than worse lungs’: young people’s views of nicotine pouches in the UK. Addiction. In Press.
  • Zare Sakhvidi MJ, Browning MHEM, Samuelsson K, Labib SM, Psyllidis A, Amegah AK, Astell-Burt T, Bach A, Jerrett M, Bratman GN, van den Bosch M, de Hoogh K, de Vries S, Dzhambov AM, Fallah Madvari R, Feng X, Fernandes A, Fuertes E, Giannico V, Gouveia N, Hartig T, Heinrich J, Hystad P, Ibarluzea J, Jacquemin B, James P, Jashni M, Knibbs LD, Knobel P, Kogevinas M, Lertxundi A, Markevych I, Mehrparvar A, Miri M, Mitchell R, Nawrot TS, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, O’Callaghan-Gordo C, Pearce J, Plusquin M, Sanesi G, Su JG, Triguero-Mas M, Ubalde M, Valentin A, White MP, Yang BY, Yang J, Zhang J, Zhao T, Helbich M, Dadvand P. 2025. Methodological guidance for selecting buffers in greenspace and health studies. The Lancet Planetary Health. In Press.

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2007

  • Thompson L, Pearce J, Barnett R, 2007. Moralising geographies: Stigma, smoking islands and responsible subjects. Area 39, 508-517.
  • Dorling D, Mitchell R, Pearce J, 2007. An observational study: the global impact of income inequality on health by age. British Medical Journal 335, 873-875.
  • Pearce J, Barnett R, Jones I, 2007. Have urban/rural inequalities in suicide in New Zealand grown during the period 1980-2001? Social Science and Medicine 65, 1807-1819.
  • Pearce J, 2007. Incorporating geographies of health into public policy debates: The GeoHealth Laboratory. New Zealand Geographer 63, 149-153.
  • Pearce J, 2007. Editorial: Investigating place effects on health: an Australasian perspective. Australasian Epidemiologist 14, 2-3.
  • Kingham S, Pearce J, Zawar-Reza P, 2007. Driven to injustice? Environmental justice and vehicle pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand. Transportation Research D: Transport and Environment 12, 254-263.
  • Pearce J, Blakely T, Witten K, Bartie P, 2007. Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast food retailing: a national study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 32, 375-382.
  • Pearce J, Witten K, Hiscock R, Blakely T, 2007. Are socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods deprived of health-related community resources? International Journal of Epidemiology 36, 348-355.
  • Miller L., Pearce J, Barnett R, 2007. The place of population mixing in the aetiology of disease: a New Zealand perspective. Australasian Epidemiologist 14, 12-15.
  • Pearce J, Barnett R, Collings S, Jones I, 2007. Did geographical inequalities in suicide among males aged 15 to 44 in New Zealand increase during the period 1981-2001? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 41, 359-365.
  • Cupples J, Guyatt V, Pearce J, 2007. “Put on a jacket, you wuss”: Cultural identities and air pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand. Environment and Planning A 39, 2883-2898.

2006

  • Pearce J, Dorling D, Wheeler B, Barnett R, Rigby J, 2006. Geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand, 1980-2001: the gap widens. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 30, 461-466.
  • Pearce J, Dorling D, 2006, The place of population change in explaining geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand, International Journal of Epidemiology 35, 1099-1100.
  • Barnett R, Pearce J, Howes P, 2006. ‘Help, educate, encourage?’: Geographical variations in the provision and utilisation of diabetes education in New Zealand. Social Science and Medicine 63, 1228-1243.
  • Pearce J, Dorling D, 2006, Increasing geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand, 1980-2001, International Journal of Epidemiology 35, 597-603.
  • Barnett R, Barnett P, Pearce J and Howes P, 2006, Preventing the human time bomb? Barriers to utilising diabetes education in Christchurch, New Zealand, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 30, 275-278.
  • Pearce J, Kingham S, Zawar-Reza P, 2006, Every breath you take? Environmental justice and air pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand, Environment and Planning A, 38, 919-938.
  • Pearce J, Witten K, Bartie P, 2006, Neighbourhoods and health: a GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60, 389-395.
  • Pearce J, Barnett R, Kingham S, 2006, Slip! Slap! Slop! Cutaneous malignant melanoma incidence and social status in New Zealand, 1995-2000, Health and Place 12, 239-252.

2005

  • Wilson J G, Kingham S, Pearce J, Sturman A P, 2005. A review of intra-urban variations in particulate air pollution: implications for epidemiological research. Atmospheric Environment 39, 6444-6462.
  • Zawar-Reza P, Kingham S, Pearce J, 2005, Evaluation of a year-long dispersion modelling of PM10 using the mesoscale model TAPM for Christchurch, New Zealand. Science of the Total Environment 349, 249-259.
  • Pearce J, Boyle P, 2005, Is the urban excess in lung cancer in Scotland explained by patterns of smoking? Social Science and Medicine 60, 2833-2843.
  • Pearce J, Boyle P, 2005, Examining the relationship between lung cancer and radon in small areas across Scotland. Health and Place 11, 275-282.
  • Barnett R, Pearce J, Moon G, 2005, Does social inequality matter? Assessing the effects of changing ethnic socio-economic disparities on Maori smoking in New Zealand, 1981-96. Social Science and Medicine 60, 1515-1526.
  • Wilson JG, Kingham S, Sturman A, Pearce J, 2005. Intraurban particulate air pollution and restricted activity days in New Zealand school children. Epidemiology 16, S136-S136 (Abstract).

2003

  • Pearce J, Boyle P, Flowerdew R, 2003, Predicting smoking behaviour in census output areas across Scotland, Health and Place 9, 139-149.
  • Pearce J, 2003, Emerging new research on the geography of health and impairment, Health and Place 9, 107-108.

2001

  • Flowerdew R, Pearce J, 2001, Linking point and area data to model primary school performance indicators, Geographical and Environmental Modeling 5, 23-41.

2000

  • Pearce J, 2000, Techniques for defining school catchment areas for comparison with census data, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 24, 283-303.