Aims and Objectives, Context and Significance of the Research:

The aim of the project is to locate neighbourhood mechanisms through which the effects of area deprivation impact the likelihood to receive cervical cancer diagnosis. Variables will be chosen in line with the causal mechanisms suspected to explain the relationship which has often been explored as an outcome of individual over neighbourhood poverty, using a cross-sectional methodology (Singh et al., 2004), adopting traditional approaches and thereby reporting statistical not causal inference. In adopting a methodology which seeks to make use of neighbourhood histories, as well as employing a mechanisms based approach, the research will directly acknowledge and respond to gaps within existing neighbourhood effects literature, as well as articulating a more rigorous and fine-grained analysis, resulting in effective neighbourhood interventions.