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Description: Bathing facilities and health phronesis: tackling English obesity. Mixed methods sequential research in five phases. Research questions and hypotheses • RQ1: Does the geospatial distribution of swimming facilities impact health? (Nomothetic). (H10: Pools is insignificant vs. H1A: Pools is significant) • RQ2: Is the construction of swimming pools adequate for national health need? (Nomothetic). (H20: Forecast pool construction stable vs. H2A: Forecast pool construction increases) • RQ3: What policy learning emerges from idiosyncratic cases? (Idiographic & qualitative) Approach After problematisation (1) and structured literature review (2), the study conducted cross-sectional analysis of excess mortality and swimming pools (3a & 3b) and longitudinal analysis of pool construction (3c-e). Cross-sectional investigation involved factor analysis (3a) to explore and regression to analysis (3b) to investigate English mortality and its covariates (3b). The For the time series analysis, the study analysed 120 years of English pool construction data using autoregressive distributed lag models - ARIMA (3c), ADL (3d) and ECM (3e).