ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
Is Housing a Health Insult?
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- Housing Australian Children: A Snapshot of Health Inequities in the First 2000 Days.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2024Article
- Housing status is protective of neuropsychiatric symptoms among dementia-free multi-ethnic Asian elderly.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Associations between Recession Hardships and Subjective and Objective Sleep Measures in the Midlife in the United States Study: Race and Gender Differences.Frontiers in sleep · 2024Article
- Housing tenure and disability in the UK: trends and projections 2004-2030.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Health care utilization among women of reproductive age living in public housing: Associations across six public housing sites in San Francisco.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- The Effect of Built Environment on Physical Health and Mental Health of Adults: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Integrating Urban Land Tenure Security in Health Determinants: The Design of Indicators for Measuring Land Tenure Security and Health Relationships in Developing Country Contexts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities.Wellcome open research · 2022Article
- Housing safety and health academic and public opinion mining from 1945 to 2021: PRISMA, cluster analysis, and natural language processing approaches.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Home quality and child health: Analysis of the Survey of Income and Program Participation.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community · 2021Article
- Associations between Objective and Subjective Housing Status with Individual Mental Health in Guangzhou, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Housing and Adult Health: Evidence from Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Housing at the frontline of the COVID-19 challenge: A commentary on "Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts".Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- Do financial hardship and social support mediate the effect of unaffordable housing on mental health?Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Article
- Physical Attributes of Housing and Elderly Health: A New Dynamic Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Housing for People with an Acquired Brain or Spinal Injury: Mapping the Australian Funding Landscape.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
In seeking to understand the relationship between housing and health, research attention is often focussed on separate components of people's whole housing 'bundles'. We propose in this paper that such conceptual and methodological abstraction of elements of the housing and health relationship limits our ability to understand the scale of the accumulated effect of housing on health and thereby contributes to the under-recognition of adequate housing as a social policy tool and powerful health intervention. In this paper, we propose and describe an index to capture the means by which housing bundles influence health. We conceptualise the index as reflecting accumulated housing 'insults to health'-an Index of Housing Insults (IHI). We apply the index to a sample of 1000 low-income households in Australia. The analysis shows a graded association between housing insults and health on all outcome measures. Further, after controlling for possible confounders, the IHI is shown to provide additional predictive power to the explanation of levels of mental health, general health and clinical depression beyond more traditional proxy measures. Overall, this paper reinforces the need to look not just at separate housing components but to embrace a broader understanding of the relationship between housing and health.
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