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Quasi-experimental evaluation of the health impacts of the New Deal for Communities Urban Regeneration scheme

The challenge of measuring outcomes associated with area-based regeneration initiatives has been discussed extensively in the literature. Key issues relate to the availability of appropriate data and the need to have some indication of the counter-factual–that is, what would have happened in the absence of the initiative. In this paper, we offer an assessment of the utility of a method to construct virtual area models that can be used as ‘controls’ in the quasi-experimental evaluation of an urban regeneration initiative and comment on the availability of appropriate health outcome data to populate such models.