Poor housing quality: Prevalence and health effects

E Baker; LH Lester; R Bentley; A Beer

Journal article

Poor housing quality: Prevalence and health effects

E Baker, LH Lester, R Bentley, A Beer

Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1080/10852352.2016.1197714

Abstract

Housing is a central component of productive, healthy, and meaningful lives, and a principle social determinant of health and well-being. Surprisingly, though, evidence on the ways that housing influences health in Australia is poorly developed. This stems largely from the fact that the majority of the population are accommodated in good quality housing. The dominance of a “good housing paradigm” means that households living in poor quality and unhealthy housing are doubly disadvantaged—by the quality of their housing and because policy makers in Australia do not acknowledge the health effects of housing. In this article, we examine the relationship between health outcomes and quality of hou..

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Rebecca Bentley Author

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Awarded by Australian Research Council as part of the ARC Discovery Project

Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the Australian Research Council,who provided funding for this research as part of the ARC Discovery Project DP120102974.A preliminary analysis of the hidden fraction was presented to the State of Australian Cities Conference,Sydney in December 2013,and we acknowledge and thank the participants of that work-shop for their suggestions and comments.This article uses unit record data from the Household,Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey.The HILDA Project was initiated and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) and is managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (Melbourne Institute).The findings and views reported in this article,however,are those of the author and should not be attributed to either DSS or the Melbourne Institute.