ReviewHealth & place2011
Housing and health inequalities: a synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health.
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112 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Assessing housing exposures and interventions that impact healthy cities: a systematic overview of reviews.Perspectives in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Housing inequalities and health outcomes among migrant and refugee populations in high-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Strategies for knowledge exchange for action to address place-based determinants of health inequalities: an umbrella review.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Housing environment and mental health of Europeans during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-country comparison.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- How effects on health equity are assessed in systematic reviews of interventions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Examining the effectiveness of place-based interventions to improve public health and reduce health inequalities: an umbrella review.BMC public health · 2021Pooled it
- Impact of Political Economy on Population Health: A Systematic Review of Reviews.American journal of public health · 2019Pooled it
- Lone parents, health, wellbeing and welfare to work: a systematic review of qualitative studies.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
- Housing Status, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes Among People Living With HIV/AIDS: A Systematic Review.American journal of public health · 2016Pooled it
- Association of Receipt of a Housing Voucher With Subsequent Hospital Utilization and Spending.JAMA · 2019Trial
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- Exploring the relationship between residential environment and depressive symptoms among older adults: the mediating pathway of social participation.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Housing distress and subsequent health and well-being among older adults: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- "Take away the greed of the private landlord housing market … because that is killing people": Examining the political economy of housing and health inequalities in four English coastal towns.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
- Contextual impact of socio-economic inequalities on health: a case study of COVID-19 mortality among populations with and without diabetes in France.BMJ public health · 2026Article
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- The effects of government-led cash transfer programmes on behavioural and health determinants of mortality: a difference-in-differences study.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Article
- Health practices and neighborhood experiences among young adults living alone under housing poverty in Seoul, South Korea.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Using Geographic Disaggregation to Compare Tuberculosis Epidemiology Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons-USA, 2010-2020.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Examining the health literacy and health behaviours of children aged 8-11 in Wales, UK.Health promotion international · 2025Article
52 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Housing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged to be important social determinants of health, through three main pathways: (1) internal housing conditions, (2) area characteristics and (3) housing tenure. We conducted a systematic overview of systematic reviews of intervention studies to provide an overview of the evidence on the impact of housing and neighbourhood interventions on health and health inequalities. There is relatively strong evidence for interventions aimed at improving area characteristics and compelling evidence for warmth and energy efficiency interventions targeted at vulnerable individuals. However, the health impacts of area-level internal housing improvement interventions are as yet unclear. We found no reviews of interventions aimed at altering housing tenure. This remains an important area for further research and potentially new evidence syntheses.
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