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Environmental burden of disease associated with inadequate housing. Methods for quantifying health impacts of selected housing risks in the WHO European Region
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Braubach, M., Jacobs, D. E. and Ormandy, David (2011) Environmental burden of disease associated with inadequate housing. Methods for quantifying health impacts of selected housing risks in the WHO European Region. Copenhagen, Denmark: World Health Organisation .
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Abstract
This summary report presents key findings of the report “Environmental burden of disease associated with inadequate housing”. It provides evidence that the health consequences of inadequate housing are substantial. Improving housing in a way that removes or minimizes the negative impact on health and safety and promotes a healthier living environment is good for the residents and beneficial for society. Reducing the burden of responding to the demands on the health system attributable to inadequate housing is an obvious public health priority, but also something that makes economic sense.
The findings set out in the full report provide ample justification for the principle that health should be at the centre of housing policy. Making housing healthy, affordable and sustainable should be a prime objective of all professionals and policy-makers involved in any aspect of housing and of health. This summary and its sister publication provide the evidence they need to make it so.
Item Type: | Report | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Health and Social Studies | ||||
Publisher: | World Health Organisation | ||||
Place of Publication: | Copenhagen, Denmark | ||||
ISBN: | 978 92 890 0239 4 | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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