Journal article
Examining associations between area-level spatial measures of housing with selected health and wellbeing behaviours and outcomes in an urban context
H Badland, S Foster, R Bentley, C Higgs, R Roberts, C Pettit, B Giles-Corti
Health and Place | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2017
Abstract
Adequate and affordable housing is a major social determinant of health; yet no work has attempted to conceptually map and spatially test area-level measures of housing with selected health and wellbeing outcomes. Sourcing data from 7,753 adults from Melbourne, Australia, we tested associations between area-level measures of housing density, tenure, and affordability with individual-level measures of neighbourhood safety, community satisfaction, and self-rated health. Compared with the reference groups, the odds of: feeling unsafe was higher for residents living in areas with less affordable housing; community dissatisfaction was ~30% higher in those living in areas with >36% residential pro..
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Funding Acknowledgements
HB is supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre for Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities (#1061404) and The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (#GNT9100001, supported by NHMRC, Australian Government Department of Health, ACT Health, NSW Ministry of Health, the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia (HCF) and the HCF Research Foundation). SF is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (#DE160100140). CH is supported by the NHMRC Centre for Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities (#1061404). RB is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (#FT150100131). BGC is supported by an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow Award (#1107672). HB, RR, and BGC are in part, supported by VicHealth.