As a robustness check, we use home renovations as major a trigger of changes in housing conditions. Restricting the analysis to tenants, whose renovations are paid by landlords, we document that home renovations significantly reduce doctor visits, corroborating the findings on home conditions and ...
摘要: There is a large body of evidence that suggests a link between poor housing and ill health. The primary objective of this study is to assess the condition of the housing stock in the Dunedin City Council area with regard to the health of its occupants and to identify areas...
The impacts of socioeconomic position in childhood on adult health outcomes and mortality are well documented in quantitative analyses (e.g., [1]). Housing is a key mechanism through which social and structural inequalities can impact health [2]. The impact of housing conditions on child health...
Housing status is collected at diagnosis. Cases were considered to be homeless if the medical record noted that the patient was homeless or if the address recorded was a known homeless shelter, a health care clinic, or a free postal address not connected to a residence (e.g., general delive...
BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Impact of housing on the survival of persons with AIDS Sandra K Schwarcz*1,2, Ling C Hsu1, Eric Vittinghoff2, Annie Vu1, Joshua D Bamberger1 and Mitchell H Katz1,2 Open Access Address: 1San Francisco Department of Public ...
In addition to reviewing the literature this study develops a research methodology for collecting and robustly analysing a wide range of refereed journal articles that drew on approaches used in health research that have been transferred to housing studies. A major element of the study was the evalu...
Thus, detrimental factors regarding the health status of residents have been extracted based on objective data. The results were as follows: (1) Homogeneous results indicating that residents at a higher-floor level of apartment housing had a poor health status are not reliable. (2) Higher-rise ...
This study examined the extent to which an ACT team employed within a Housing First program conforms to the fidelity standards of the ACT model. The aim was to specifically identify the extent to which accommodations have been made to suit the context and priorities of Housing First. Results in...
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire are calling for urgent action to provide safe and stable accommodation for single mothers and their children, after research uncovered the devastating effects of the UK's chronic housing crisis on their mental and physical health. ...
Households sacrifice the basic needs of housing and clothing, and the burden on poorer households is higher, whereas richer households have the option of sacrificing more from non-basic needs to cope with NCDs and hospitalization and thereby to secure basic needs to a certain extent. Moreover, ...