Journal article
Housing and health: An updated glossary
A Mansour, R Bentley, E Baker, A Li, E Martino, A Clair, L Daniel, SR Mishra, NJ Howard, P Phibbs, DE Jacobs, A Beer, T Blakely, P Howden-Chapman
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2022
Abstract
Recent crises have underscored the importance that housing has in sustaining good health and, equally, its potential to harm health. Considering this and building on Howden-Chapman's early glossary of housing and health and the WHO Housing and Health Guidelines, this paper introduces a range of housing and health-related terms, reflecting almost 20 years of development in the field. It defines key concepts currently used in research, policy and practice to describe housing in relation to health and health inequalities. Definitions are organised by three overarching aspects of housing: affordability (including housing affordability stress (HAS) and fuel poverty), suitability (including condit..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing (APP1196456; principal investigator (CI) RB, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne) and NHMRC Ideas Grant (APP2004466; principal investigator (CI) RB, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne).