The research journal of the Housing Education and Research Association, Housing and Society, announces a call for papers to appear in a special issue of the journal related to the theme, “Housing and Health” edited by David A. Turcotte.
Housing is fundamental to the quality of life in communities and is an important social determinant of health. Housing that is well designed, located and maintained is essential to mental and physical health of occupants. Many factors influence how housing affects individual and community health, such as physical conditions, behavior of residents, location, neighborhood activities, accessibility, affordability, ambient environmental quality and impacts from manmade and natural disasters. This special issue of Housing and Society will highlight the connection between housing and health by addressing the variety of elements that influences this link. We welcome manuscripts with a variety of methodological approaches, study designs and units of analysis, including statistical studies of large data sets, policy impacts and implications on various levels, behavioral studies and local intervention, environmental and impact assessment studies.
Topics of interest focused on the relationship between housing and health include, but are not limited to, those addressing
Aging in Place
Healthy Homes
Impacts of Structural Conditions and Hazards
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
Impacts of Housing Instability
Accessibility and Homelessness
Climate Change and Natural Disasters
Behaviors of Occupants
Affordability and Financial Burden
Public Policy
Neighborhood Impacts
Submission
The journal is published online by the Taylor and Francis Group of Routledge and uses Editorial Manager for submissions and reviews. Please review the guide for authors, http://www.ariessys.com/wp-content/uploads/EM-Author-English.pdf, before making a submission. To submit your manuscript, visit the link Welcome to Editorial Manager® for Housing and Society, http://www.editorialmanager.com/rhas/default.aspx and click Author Login. Please indicate that your manuscript is submitted for the special issue: Housing and Health in the Letter to the Editor. For more author resources, visit the Author Services website, http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/. All submissions undergo the Housing and Society blind peer review process, based on initial editor screening and double-blind review by at least two referees.
Manuscript submission deadline: 1 March 2020
If you have any questions about this special issue, please contact David A. Turcotte at [email protected]