SynthesisJournal of epidemiology and community health2003
Health impact assessment of housing improvements: incorporating research evidence.
Synthesis in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Assessing the unintended health impacts of road transport policies and interventions: translating research evidence for use in policy and practice.BMC public health · 2008Pooled it
- Health and health equity in policymaking across sectors: Identifying opportunities and challenges in implementing Health in All Policies.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2025Article
- The Minha Casa Minha Vida social housing programme and leprosy in Brazil: an analysis of the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort (2010-2015).BMC public health · 2025Article
- Hypnosis in the operating room: are anesthesiology teams interested and well-informed?BMC anesthesiology · 2023Article
- COVID-19 and healthy home preferences: The case of apartment residents in Tehran.Journal of building engineering · 2021Article
- HUD Housing Assistance Associated With Lower Uninsurance Rates And Unmet Medical Need.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2017Article
- Health Complaints Associated with Poor Rental Housing Conditions in Arkansas: The Only State without a Landlord's Implied Warranty of Habitability.Frontiers in public health · 2016Article
- Representing Residence, Living Situation, and Living Conditions: An Evaluation of Terminologies, Standards, Guidelines, and Measures/Surveys.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2016Article
- A predictive model of apartment-living based on socio-economic and demographic factors with health-based approach in Iran.Global journal of health science · 2015Article
- Wellbeing impacts of city policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Review
- Changes to indoor air quality as a result of relocating families from slums to public housing.Atmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994) · 2013Article
- Household disrepair and the mental health of low-income urban women.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2011Article
- SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 10: Taking equity into consideration when assessing the findings of a systematic review.Health research policy and systems · 2009Article
- Rapid health impact appraisal of eviction versus a housing project in a colony-dwelling Roma community.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2007Article
- The design of housing and shelter programs: the social and environmental determinants of inequalities.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2007Article
- Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 12. Incorporating considerations of equity.Health research policy and systems · 2006Article
- When home is where the stress is: expanding the dimensions of housing that influence asthma morbidity.Archives of disease in childhood · 2006Review
- Community experiences and perceptions related to demolition and gut rehabilitation of houses for urban redevelopment.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2005Article
- The role of the built environment in the disablement process.American journal of public health · 2005Article
- Enhancing the evidence base for health impact assessment.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2004Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundHealth impact assessment (HIA) has been widely recommended for future social policies and investment, such as housing improvement. However, concerns have been raised about the utility and predictive value of an HIA. Use of existing research data would add more weight to forecasts by an HIA. METHODS, RESULTS, and
conclusionsA recent systematic review of housing intervention studies found a lack of research. The authors recommended that a broader evidence base would be needed to support HIA. In response to consultation with policymakers and HIA practitioners this paper presents a way in which research can be used to inform HIA. Based on the systematic review, the authors have developed a table of synthesised findings indicating the expected health effects of specific housing improvements. The authors also reviewed observational data of housing associated health risks to highlight the key impacts to consider when doing a housing HIA. The findings are presented and the authors discuss how they should be used to inform evidence based housing HIA. In addition to considering the existing research, HIA must consider the local relevance of research. Consultation with local stakeholders also needs to be incorporated to the final assessment. The lack of data and the difficulties in gathering and reviewing data mean that not all HIAs will be able to be informed by research evidence. Well conducted prospective validation of HIAs would contribute to the development of healthy housing investment by informing future housing HIA.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.