Review of the impact of housing quality on inequalities in health and well-being

P Howden-Chapman, J Bennett… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Housing quality is essential for population health and broader well-being. The World Health
Organization Housing and health guidelines highlight interventions that protect occupants …

Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research

KM Leifheit, GL Schwartz, CE Pollack… - J Epidemiol Community …, 2022 - jech.bmj.com
Housing may be at once the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve
population health. Using examples from the USA, we argue that current levels of housing …

Housing as a platform for health and equity: evidence and future directions

D Hernández, CB Swope - American journal of public …, 2019 - ajph.aphapublications.org
The links between housing and health are now known to be strong and multifaceted and to
generally span across 4 key pillars: stability, affordability, quality and safety, and …

The health impacts of housing improvement: a systematic review of intervention studies from 1887 to 2007

H Thomson, S Thomas… - American journal of …, 2009 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We conducted a systematic review of the health impacts of housing
improvement. Methods. Forty-two bibliographic databases were searched for housing …

Housing and health: time again for public health action

J Krieger, DL Higgins - American journal of public health, 2002 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Poor housing conditions are associated with a wide range of health conditions, including
respiratory infections, asthma, lead poisoning, injuries, and mental health. Addressing …

Housing as a determinant of health equity: A conceptual model

CB Swope, D Hernández - Social Science & Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Housing is a major pathway through which health disparities emerge and are sustained over
time. However, no existing unified conceptual model has comprehensively elucidated the …

Key challenges of housing and health from WHO perspective

M Braubach - International Journal of Public Health, 2011 - Springer
Housing and health, often referred to in more general terms as ''healthy buildings'', is an
area of work that is based on contributions from many technical and professional disciplines …

'Home is where the health is': Housing quality and adult health outcomes in the survey of income and program participation

SJ Boch, DM Taylor, ML Danielson, DJ Chisolm… - Preventive …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nearly a quarter of the homes in the United States were considered unhealthy or
inadequate, but whether these housing characteristics have direct effects on health or …

Home is where the harm is: inadequate housing as a public health crisis

SA Bashir - American journal of public health, 2002 - ajph.aphapublications.org
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[HTML][HTML] Gender-based inequalities in the effects of housing on health: A critical review

C Vásquez-Vera, A Fernández, C Borrell - SSM-Population Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Gender and its power relations are produced and reproduced in the housing sphere,
leading to inequalities in living conditions and, therefore, in gender inequalities in health …