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Howden-Chapman, Philippa, Bennett, Julie, Edwards, Richard, Jacobs, David, Nathan, Kim and Ormandy, David (2023) Review of the impact of housing quality on inequalities in health and well-being. Annual Review of Public Health, 44 (1). pp. 233-254. doi:10.1146/annurev-publhealth-071521-111836 ISSN 0163-7525.
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Abstract
Housing quality is essential for population health and broader well-being. The World Health Organization housing and health guidelines highlight interventions that protect occupants from cold and hot temperatures, injuries, and other hazards. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of ventilation standards. Housing standards are unevenly developed, implemented, and monitored globally, despite robust research demonstrating that retrofitting existing houses and constructing high-quality new ones can reduce respiratory, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases. Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and people with low incomes face cumulative disadvantages that are exacerbated by poor-quality housing. These can be partially ameliorated by community-based programs to improve housing quality, particularly for children and older people, who are hospitalized more often for housing-related illnesses. There is renewed interest among policy makers and researchers in the health and well-being of people in public and subsidized housing, who are disproportionately disadvantaged by avoidable housing-related diseases and injuries. Improving the overall quality of new and existing housing and neighborhoods has multiple cobenefits, including reducing carbon emissions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Housing , Housing policy , Housing -- Resident satisfaction, Housing and health, Well-being | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Annual Review of Public Health | ||||||
Publisher: | Annual Reviews | ||||||
ISSN: | 0163-7525 | ||||||
Official Date: | April 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 44 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 233-254 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-071521-111836 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 April 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 April 2023 |
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