Health + Housing Resources

• Health status and the housing system

  Authors

  | Smith SJ

  Abstract Most research on housing and health seeks causal links between dwelling conditions and the incidence of physical and mental disease. Less attention has been paid to the more sociological question of how health status affects housing opportunities. This paper…

  Journal : Soc Sci Med|Publication Date : 1990|Issue : 31:753­ 62

  • Health status and the housing system

  Keywords

  Health Priorities| Health Status| Homeless Persons| Housing economics| Humans| Private market| Public Health Administration| Scotland

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• Health and comfort changes among tenants after retrofitting of their housing

  Authors

  | Iversen M | Bach E | Lundqvist GR

  ABSTRACT: The aim of this study has been to follow apartment residents' evaluation of their health status and indoor climate perception related to the implementation of energy conservation measures in Danish housing. The study was designed as a prospective study including…

  Journal : Environment International|Publication Date : 1986|Issue : 12:161­6

  • Health and comfort changes among tenants after retrofitting of their housing

  Keywords

  Air quality| Drafts| Health| Housing| Indoor climate| ventilation

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• The health effects of improvements to housing: A longitudinal study

  Authors

  | Hopton J | Hunt S

  ABSTRACT: Although housing conditions were an integral part of the emergence of the Public Health movement, there has been relatively little research on the relationship between housing and health compared to that on social inequalities in general. This is surprising in…

  Journal : Housing Studies|Publication Date : 1996|Issue : 11:271­86

  • The health effects of improvements to housing: A longitudinal study

  Keywords

  Children| Dampness and mould| Heating| Heating systems| Longitudinal study| Social inequality

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• Housing and health: does installing heating in their homes improve the health of children with asthma?

  Authors

  | Somerville M | Mackenzie I | Owen P | Miles D

  Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of NHS money to improve health by improving housing conditions. A pilot study assessing health outcomes before and after improving housing conditions was conducted, studying 72 children with previously…

  Journal : Public Health|Publication Date : 2000|Issue : 114(6):434-9

  • Housing and health: does installing heating in their homes improve the health of children with asthma?

  Keywords

  Asthma| Asthma prevention & control| Central heating installation| Child| Child Welfare| England| Follow-Up Studies| Heating| Humans| Improved housing conditions| National Health Programs| Pilot Projects| Public Health| Questionnaires

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• Effects of improved housing on health in South Dos Palos, California

  Authors

  | Wambem DB | Piland NF

  Journal : Health Services Report |Publication Date : 1973|Issue : 88:47­58

  • Effects of improved housing on health in South Dos Palos, California

  Keywords

  California USA| Crowding| Health behaviour| Housing satisfaction| Longitudinal| Low income| Methodology| Outpatient| Refuse disposal| Structural deficiency| Vermin| Wastewater disposal

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• Neighbourhood renewal and health: evidence from a local case study

  Authors

  | Blackman T | Harvey J | Lawrence M | Simon A

  ABSTRACT: This article presents findings from a before-and-after study of the effects of neighbourhood renewal on residents' health. Survey data were analysed using multivariate logistic regression. Before the renewal programme, damp and draughts had significant independent effects on respiratory health…

  Journal : Health Place|Publication Date : 2001|Issue : 7(2):93-103

  • Neighbourhood renewal and health: evidence from a local case study

  Keywords

  Mental health| Neighbourhood renewal| Respiratory health

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• Poverty, nutrition and the public health

  Authors

  | McGonigle G

  An Investigation into some of the Results of Moving a Slum Population to Modern Dwellings.

  Journal : Proc R Soc Med|Publication Date : 1933|Issue : 26(6): 677–687

  • Poverty, nutrition and the public health.

  Keywords

  Poverty| Public Health| Slum dwelling

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• Impact of improved housing on morale and life satisfaction

  Authors

  | Carp FM

  A number of studies have shown that — over about the first year of tenancy — satisfaction with life in general, as well as with housing, tends to improve among elderly persons who move to better living environments. The present…

  Journal : Gerontologist|Publication Date : 1975|Issue : 15:511­5

  • Impact of improved housing on morale and life satisfaction

  Keywords

  Improved housing| Life satisfaction

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• Housing as an Environmental Factor in Mental Health: The Johns Hopkins Longitudinal Study

  Authors

  | Wilner DM | Price­Walkley R | Schram JM | Pinkerton TC | Tayback M.

  A further report of the preliminary findings of an experimental study of housing and health; this time the focus is on the 18-month effects of improved housing on social adjustment and mental health.

  Journal : Am J Public Health|Publication Date : 1960|Issue : 50:55­63

  • Housing as an Environmental Factor in Mental Health: The Johns Hopkins Longitudinal Study

  Keywords

  Housing| Mental health| Social adjustment

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• The effects of hous­ing quality on morbidity: preliminary findings of the Johns Hopkins lon­gitudinal study

  Authors

  | Wilner DM | Price­Walkley R | Glasser MN | Tayback M

  This report presents preliminary morbidity data from the study of the effects of improved housing on physical and mental health. 18 months of rehoused experience reveals no gross difference in physical mortality between test and control families; possible explanations are…

  Journal : Am J Public Health|Publication Date : 1958|Issue : 48:1607­15

  • The effects of hous­ ing quality on morbidity: preliminary findings of the Johns Hopkins lon­gitudinal study

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• Rehousing on medical grounds: assessment of its effectiveness

  Authors

  | Cole O | Farries JS

  Journal : Public Health|Publication Date : 1986|Issue : 100:229­35

  • Rehousing on medical grounds: assessment of its effectiveness

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• Rehousing as a health intervention: miracle or mirage?

  Authors

  | Smith SJ | Alexander A | Easterlow D

  The relationship between housing and health is complex, and despite a recent revival of interest, many facets remain unexplained. Most research focuses either on the impact of housing environments on occupants' health or (less often) on the consequences of health status for housing attainment.…

  Journal : Health and Place|Publication Date : 1997|Issue : 3:203­16

  • Rehousing as a health intervention: miracle or mirage?

  Keywords

  Health| Housing| Migration| Welfare

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• Characteristics of the community-level diet of Aboriginal people in remote northern Australia.

  Authors

  | Brimblecomd, J.K. | Ferguson, M.M. | Liberato, S.C. | O’Dea, K.

  OBJECTIVE: To describe the nutritional quality of community-level diets in remote northern Australian communities. DESIGN: A multisite 12-month assessment (July 2010 to June 2011) of community-level diet in three remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, linking data from food…

  Journal : Medical Journal of Australia|Publication Date : 2013|Issue : 198: 380–384

  • Characteristics of the community-level diet of Aboriginal people in remote northern Australia.

  Keywords

  Australian Food and Nutrient Database| Community-level diets| Food expenditure| Poor dietary quality| Remote Australian communities

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• Improving the state of health hardware in Australian Indigenous housing: building more houses is not the only answer

  Authors

  | Pholeros, P. | Lea, T. | Rainow, S. | Sowerbutts, T.

  Background: This article outlines a program of applied research and development known as Housing for Health that, over the period 1999!2012, targeted health-related improvements in housing for Indigenous householders in communities across regional and remote Australia. In essence, the program…

  Journal : International Journal Circumpolar Health|Publication Date : 2013|Issue : 72: 21181

  • Improving the state of health hardware in Australian Indigenous housing: building more houses is not the only answer

  Keywords

  Health Hardware| Housing for Health| Indigenous householders| Rural and remote Australia

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• Infrastructural violence: introduction to the special issue.

  Authors

  | Rodgers, D. | O’Neill, B.

  This introduction lays out some of the theoretical underpinnings of the notion of ‘infrastructural violence’. We begin by considering infrastructure as an ethnographically graspable manifestation, before then moving on to highlight how broader processes of marginalization, abjection and disconnection often…

  Journal : Ethnography|Publication Date : 2012|Issue : 13:401-12

  • Infrastructural violence: introduction to the special issue.

  Keywords

  Abjection| Disconnection| Infrastructural violence| Marginalization

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• Trends in lower respiratory tract infection hospitalizations among the American Indian/Alaska Native and the general US child populations

  Authors

  | Singleton, R.J. | Holman, R.C. | Folkema, A. | Wenger, J.D. | Steiner, C.A | Redd, J.T.

  OBJECTIVE: To describe trends in the rate of hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and the general US population of children aged <5 years. DESIGN: This was a retrospective analysis of trends and…

  Journal : Journal of Paediatrics|Publication Date : 2012|Issue : 161:296-302

  • Trends in lower respiratory tract infection hospitalizations among the American Indian/Alaska Native and the general US child populations

  Keywords

  American Insian/Alaska Native children| Hospitalization| LRTI (Lower Respiratory Tract Infection)

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• Use of health services by remote dwelling Aboriginal infants in tropical northern Australia: a retrospective cohort study

  Authors

  | Bar-Zeev, S.J. | Kruske, S.G. | Barclay, L.M. | Bar-Zeev, N.H. | Carapetis, J.R. | Kildea, S.V.

  BACKGROUND: Australia is a wealthy developed country. However, there are significant disparities in health outcomes for Aboriginal infants compared with other Australian infants. Health outcomes tend to be worse for those living in remote areas. Little is known about the…

  Journal : BMC Paediatrics|Publication Date : 2012|Issue : 12:19

  • Use of health services by remote dwelling Aboriginal infants in tropical northern Australia: a retrospective cohort study

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• The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – an overview.

  Authors

  | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

  Journal : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra.|Publication Date : 2011|Issue : Cat. no. IHW 42

  • The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - an overview.

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• Rates of radiologically confirmed pneumonia as defined by the World Health Organization in Northern Territory Indigenous Children

  Authors

  | O'Grady, K.A. | Taylor-Thompson, D. | Chang, A.B. | Torzillo, P.J. | Morris, P. | Mackenzie, G. | Wheaton, G. | Bauert, P. | De Campo, M. | Ruben, A.

  OBJECTIVE: To determine the burden of hospitalised, radiologically confirmed pneumonia (World Health Organization protocol) in Northern Territory Indigenous children. DESIGN: Historical, observational study of all hospitaladmissions for any diagnosis of NT resident Indigenous children, aged between 29 days and <…

  Journal : Medical Journal of Australia|Publication Date : 2010|Issue : 192(10):592-5

  • Rates of radiologically confirmed pneumonia as defined by the World Health Organization in Northern Territory Indigenous Children

  Keywords

  Indigenous children| Northern Territory| Pneumonia

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• This is not a pipe: the treacheries of Indigenous housing.

  Authors

  | Lea, T. | Pholeros, P.

  This essay describes the surreality of Aboriginal housing in Australia, where images reroute remedial concern from the literal conditions toward a pathologization of the indigenous householder. Using governmental data against governmental interpretation, the essay shows how a pragmatic issue of…

  Journal : Public Culture|Publication Date : 2010|Issue : 22:187-209

  • This is not a pipe: the treacheries of Indigenous housing.

  Keywords

  Government Policy| Indigenous housing| Maintenance, repairs and construction

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• Exploring the Psychosocial Determinants of Coronary Heart Disease among Indigenous men in Central Australia

  Authors

  | Brown, A.

  The life expectancy (LE) gap experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in one of Australians most enduring health divides. Whilst there are many likely reasons, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) stand as the primary contributor. In particular, it is the…

  Journal : School of Population Health, University of Queensland|Publication Date : 2009|

  • Exploring the Psychosocial Determinants of Coronary Heart Disease among Indigenous men in Central Australia

  Keywords

  Cardiovascular disease| Indigenous Australians| Life expectancy| Psychosocial factors| Social disadvantage| Torres Strait Islander peoples

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• Effect of In Utero and Early-Life Conditions on Adult Health and Disease

  Authors

  | Gluckman, P.D. | Hanson, M.A. | Cooper, C. | Thornburg, K.L.

  A long latency period between an environmental trigger and the onset of subsequent disease is widely recognized in the etiology of certain cancers, yet this phenomenon is not generally considered in the etiology of other conditions such as cardiovascular disease,…

  Journal : New England Journal of Medicine|Publication Date : 2008|Issue : 359:61-73

  • Effect of In Utero and Early-Life Conditions on Adult Health and Disease

  Keywords

  Developmental plasticity| Disease risk| Environmental factors| Genome and epigenome

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• Housing for Health in Indigenous Australia: driving change when research and policy are part of the problem.

  Authors

  | Lea, T.

  The failures of social policy in Indigenous Australia are legion, to the current point where the former national government declared a national state of emergency in its own borders. In calmer times, recommendations for solutions almost inevitably include a call for more…

  Journal : Human Organization|Publication Date : 2008|Issue : 67:77-85

  • Housing for Health in Indigenous Australia: driving change when research and policy are part of the problem.

  Keywords

  Indigenous environmental health| Public housing| Research and policy

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• National indigenous housing guide

  Authors

  | Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

  The third edition of the National Indigenous Housing Guide, a practical resource to support the planning and development of Indigenous housing is now available. The Guide is a resource to assist in the design, construction and maintenance of housing for…

  Journal : Australian Government, Canberra|Publication Date : 2007|Issue : 3rd Edition

  • National indigenous housing guide

  Keywords

  Building and development| Health and Housing| Indigenous Australians| Safety

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• New Zealand national incidence of bronchiectasis ‘‘too high’’ for a developed country

  Authors

  | Twiss, J. | Metcalfe, R. | Edwards, E. | Byrnes, C

  AIMS: To prospectively estimate the incidence of bronchiectasis among New Zealand (NZ) children, to consider aetiology and severity, and to evaluate regional and ethnic variation. METHODS: NZ paediatricians were surveyed monthly for new cases of bronchiectasis during 2001 and 2002 via the…

  Journal : Archives of Disease in Childhood|Publication Date : 2005|Issue : 90:737–740

  • New Zealand national incidence of bronchiectasis ‘‘too high’’ for a developed country

  Keywords

  Bronchiectasis| Ethnicity| New Zealand| Paediatrics

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• Developmental Origins of the Metabolic Syndrome: Prediction, Plasticity, and Programming

  Authors

  | McMillen, C. | Robinson, J.S.

  The "fetal" or "early" origins of adult disease hypothesis was originally put forward by David Barker and colleagues and stated that environmental factors, particularly nutrition, act in early life to program the risks for adverse health outcomes in adult life.…

  Journal : Physiology Review|Publication Date : 2005|Issue : 85: 571–633

  • Developmental Origins of the Metabolic Syndrome: Prediction, Plasticity, and Programming

  Keywords

  Environmental factors| Health outcomes| Intrauterine environment| Metabolic syndrome| Nutrition

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• Otitis media in young Aboriginal children from remote communities in Northern and Central Australia: a cross-sectional survey.

  Authors

  | Morris, P.S. | Leach, A.J. | Silberberg, P. | Mellon, G. | Wilson, C. | Hamilton, E. | Beissbarth, J.

  BACKGROUND: Middle ear disease (otitis media) is common and frequently severe in Australian Aboriginal children. There have not been any recent large-scale surveys using clear definitions and a standardised middle ear assessment. The aim of the study was to determine…

  Journal : BMC Paediatrics|Publication Date : 2005|Issue : 5:27-37

  • Otitis media in young Aboriginal children from remote communities in Northern and Central Australia: a cross-sectional survey.

  Keywords

  Indigenous Australians| Otitis media| Paediatrics| Tympanic perforation

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• Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review

  Authors

  | Fewtrell, L. | Kaufmann, R.B. | Kay, D. | Enanoria,W. | Haller, L. | Colford J.

  Many studies have reported the results of interventions to reduce illness through improvements in drinking water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene practices in less developed countries. There has, however, been no formal systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the evidence of the…

  Journal : Lancet Infectious Diseases|Publication Date : 2005|Issue : 5(1):42-52

  • Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review

  Keywords

  Developing countries| Diarrhoeal disease| Hygiene| Sanitation

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• Acting on Environmental Health

  Authors

  | Daly, J. | Lumley, J.

  Journal : Australian and NZ Journal of Public Health|Publication Date : 2004|Issue : 28(5):407-408

  • Acting on Environmental Health

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• The effects of socioeconomic status, perceived discrimination and mastery on health status in a youth cohort.

  Authors

  | Caputo, R.K.

  This study examined the influence of socioeconomic status, perceived discrimination, and sense of mastery over one's life on the health status of a sub-sample of a US cohort of youth (N = 969). When controlling for a variety of social…

  Journal : Social Work Health Care |Publication Date : 2003|Issue : 37(2):17-42

  • The effects of socioeconomic status, perceived discrimination and mastery on health status in a youth cohort.

  Keywords

  Empowerment| Perceived discrimination| Physical and mental health| Self-determination| Socioeconomic status| Youth cohort

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• Personal hygiene and life expectancy improvements since 1850: Historic and epidemiologic associations

  Authors

  | Greene, V.W.

  Journal : American Journal of Infection Control |Publication Date : 2001|Issue : 29:203-6

  • Personal hygiene and life expectancy improvements since 1850: Historic and epidemiologic associations

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• Childhood housing conditions and later mortality in the Boyd Orr cohort

  Authors

  | Dedman D.J. | Gunnell, D. | Davey-Smith, G. | Frankel, S.

  OBJECTIVES: To examine associations between five measures of housing conditions during childhood and subsequent mortality from all causes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer. DESIGN: Historical cohort study. SETTING: Data on housing conditions were collected from survey centres in 16…

  Journal : Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health|Publication Date : 2001|Issue : 55:10-5

  • Childhood housing conditions and later mortality in the Boyd Orr cohort

  Keywords

  Childhood| Housing conditions| Mortality

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• Health effects of housing improvement: systematic review of intervention studies

  Authors

  | Thomson, H. | Petticrew, M. | Morrison, D.

  OBJECTIVE: To review the evidence on the effects of interventions to improve housing on health. DESIGN: Systematic review of experimental and non­experimental housing intervention studies that measured quantitative health outcomes. DATA SOURCES:  Studies dating from 1887, in any language or…

  Journal : British Medical Journal|Publication Date : 2000|Issue : 323:187-90

  • Health effects of housing improvement: systematic review of intervention studies

  Keywords

  Health outcomes| Housing interventions| Systematic review

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• Home Sweet Home? The Impact of Poor Housing on Health

  Authors

  | Marsh, A. | Gordon, D. | Pantazis, C. | Heslop, P.

  “The impact of multiple housing deprivation would appear to be the same order of magnitude as addressing the issue of smoking and the risk to health posed by multiple housing deprivation seems to be, on average, greater than that posed…

  Journal : Bristol (UK): Policy Press|Publication Date : 1999|

  • Home Sweet Home? The Impact of Poor Housing on Health.

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• The psycho-social perspective on social inequalities in health

  Authors

  | Elstad, J.T.

  Doubts about the viability of material explanations of social inequalities in health have led to a renewed focus on the aetiological role of psychological stress, and, moreover, on how psychological stress is generated by society’s inequality structures. Some researchers maintain…

  Journal : Sociology of Health and Illness|Publication Date : 1998|Issue : 20(5):598-618

  • The psycho-social perspective on social inequalities in health

  Keywords

  Emotions| Health inequalities| Psycho-social explanations| Self-efficacy| Social cohesion| Stress

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• Effects of social support and personal coping resources on mortlaity in older age: The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam.

  Authors

  | Penninx, B. | Van Tilberg, T. | Kriegsman, D. | Deeg, D. | Boeke, A. | Van Eijk, J.

  This study focuses on the role of social support and personal coping resources in relation to mortality among older persons in the Netherlands. Data are from a sample of 2,829 noninstitutionalized people aged between 55 and 85 years who took…

  Journal : American Journal of Epidemiology|Publication Date : 1997|Issue : 146:510-19

  • Effects of social support and personal coping resources on mortlaity in older age: The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam.

  Keywords

  Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam| Mortality risk| Personal coping resources| Social support

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• Invasive pneumococcal disease in central Australia

  Authors

  | Torzillo, P.J. | Hanna, J. | Morey, F. | Gratten, M. | Dixon, J. | Erlich, J.

  INTRO: To document the incidence, case fatality, clinical and demographic features of invasive pneumococcal disease in central Australia. DESIGN: Invasive isolates from the regional central laboratory were prospectively recorded over five years and case notes retrospectively reviewed. Population denominators were calculated…

  Journal : Medical Journal of Australia|Publication Date : 1995|Issue : 162(4):182-6

  • Invasive pneumococcal disease in central Australia

  Keywords

  Immunisation| Incidence of invasive disease| Indigenous Australians| Mortality

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• Measuring the impact of water supply and sanitation investment on diarrhoeal disease: problems of methodology

  Authors

  | Blum, D. | Feachem, R.G.

  A review of the published literature on the impact of water supply and/or excreta disposal facilities on diarrhoeal diseases, or on infections related to diarrhoea, reveals several methodological problems that hamper the drawing of definitive conclusions from these studies. This…

  Journal : International Journal of Epidemiology|Publication Date : 1983|Issue : 12(3):357-65

  • Measuring the impact of water supply and sanitation investment on diarrhoeal disease: problems of methodology

  Keywords

  Diarrhoeal disease| Environmental interventions| Health| Water supply

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• Social class and coronary heart disease

  Authors

  | Rose, G. | Marmot, M.G.

  SUMMARY: Over the past 40 years in England and Wales the rise in mortality from coronary heart disease has continued unabated among working-class men, whereas among professional men the rate has changed little for the past 20 years. As a…

  Journal : British Heart Journal|Publication Date : 1981|Issue : 45:13-9

  • Social class and coronary heart disease

  Keywords

  Coronary Heart Disease| Social Class

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• The present epidemiological basis of environmental sanitation

  Authors

  | Anderson, G.W.

  Journal : American Journal of Public Health|Publication Date : 1943|Issue : 33; 113-119

  • The present epidemiological basis of environmental sanitation

  Keywords

  Environment| Epidemiology| Sanitation

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• New light on the relation of housing to health

  Authors

  | Britten, R.H.

  EXTRACT: Good housing is important. It is, I believe, the right of all persons. It would be their right whether or not their health were seriously affected. It is doubly their right since their health is seriously affected. For, just…

  Journal : American Journal of Public Health|Publication Date : 1942|Issue : 32:193-9

  • New light on the relation of housing to health

  Keywords

  Crowding| Health and Housing| Home accidents| Incidence of disease

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• Basic health principles of housing and its environment

  Authors

  | American Public Health Association - Committee on the Hygiene of Housing.

  Extract: SHELTER is one of the three fundamental needs of human existence.  No housing program can be sound unless the shelter it provides is healthful.  It was this latter consideraration which lead the American Public Health Association to organize a…

  Journal : American Journal of Public Health|Publication Date : 1938|Issue : 28:351-72

  • Basic health principles of housing and its environment

  Keywords

  Housing| Hygiene| Mental health| Physical health| Social health

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• Diseases of the Australian Aborigines

  Authors

  | Basedow, H.

  Journal : American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene|Publication Date : 1932|Issue : 35:177

  • Diseases of the Australian Aborigines

  Keywords

  Australia| Disease| Indigenous Australians

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• The state of health hardware in Aboriginal communities in rural and remote Australia

  Authors

  | Torzillo, P.J | Pholeros, P | Rainow, S | Barker, G | Short, T | Irvine, A. | Sowerbutts, T

  INTRODUCTION: Many of the health problems faced by rural and remote Aboriginal people have been attributed to a poor living environment. In the mid 1980s we began a process of defining problems with the immediate living environment that would affect…

  Journal : Australian and NZ Journal of Public Health|Publication Date : 2008|Issue : 32(1):7-11

  • The state of health hardware in Aboriginal communities in rural and remote Australia

  Keywords

  Aboriginal communities| Indigenous Housing Guide| Living environment

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