8,329
Views
74
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
ARTICLES

Poor housing quality: Prevalence and health effects

, , &
Pages 219-232 | Published online: 11 Aug 2016

References

  • Bailie, R. S., & Runcie, M. J. (2001). Household infrastructure in Aboriginal communities and the implications for health improvement. The Medical Journal of Australia, 175(7), 363–366.
  • Baker, E., Bentley, R., & Mason, K. (2013). The mental health effects of housing tenure: Causal or compositional? Urban Studies, 50, 426–442. doi:10.1177/0042098012446992
  • Baker, E., Bentley, R., Mason, K., Lester, L., & Beer, A. (2013). Acknowledging the health effects of poor quality housing: Australia’s hidden fraction. Proceedings of the State of Australian Cities (SOAC) Conference, Sydney, November 2013.
  • Baltagi, B. H. (2003). Econometric analysis of panel data. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  • Barton, A., Basham, M., Foy, C., Buckingham, K., & Somerville, M. (2007). The Watcombe Housing Study: The short term effect of improving housing conditions on the health of residents. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 61, 771–777. doi:10.1136/jech.2006.048462
  • Beer, A., Baker, E., Raftery, P., & Wood, G. (2011). Housing policy, housing assistance and the wellbeing dividend: Developing an evidence base for post-GFC economies. Housing Studies, 26, 1171–1192. doi:10.1080/02673037.2011.616993
  • Beer, A., & Faulkner, D. (2011). Housing transitions through the life course: aspirations, needs and policy. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
  • Beggs, P. J., & Siciliano, F. (2001). Spatial relationship between dwelling crowding and selected causes of morbidity in Sydney, Australia, 1994–97. Australian Geographer, 32, 377–401. doi:10.1080/00049180120100086
  • Bentley, R., Baker, E., & Mason, K. (2012). Measuring the dose-dependent mental health effect of poor housing affordability for men and women. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66, 761–766. doi:10.1136/jech-2011-200291
  • Bentley, R., Baker, E., Mason, K., Subramanian, S. V., & Kavanagh, A. (2011). Association between housing affordability and mental health: A longitudinal analysis of a nationally representative household survey in Australia. American Journal of Epidemiology, 174, 753–760. doi:10.1093/aje/kwr161
  • Bonnefoy, X., Braubach, M., Krapavickaite, D., Ormand, D., & Zurlyte, I. (2003). Housing conditions and self-reported health status. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 18, 329–352. doi:10.1023/b:joho.0000005757.37088.a9
  • Clinch, P. J., & Healy, J. D. (2000). Housing standards and excess winter mortality. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 54, 719–720. doi:10.1136/jech.54.9.719
  • Dockery, A. M., Ong, R., Colquhoun, S., Li, J., & Kendall, G. (2013). Housing and children’s development and wellbeing: Evidence from Australian data, AHURI final report number 201. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.
  • Evans, G. W., Saltzman, H., & Cooperman, J. L. (2001). Housing quality and children’s socioemotional health. Environment and Behavior, 33(3), 389–399. doi:10.1177/00139160121973043
  • Evans, G. W., Wells, N. M., & Moch, A. (2003). Housing and mental health: A review of the evidence and a methodological and conceptual critique. Journal of Social Issues, 59(3), 475–500. doi:10.1111/1540-4560.00074
  • Evans, J., Hyndman, S., Stewart-Brown, S., Smith, D., & Petersen, S. (2000). An epidemiological study of the relative importance of damp housing in relation to adult health. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 54, 677–686. doi:10.1136/jech.54.9.677
  • Free, S., Howden-Chapman, P., Pierse, N., & Viggers, H. (2010). More effective home heating reduces school absences for children with asthma. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 64, 379–386. doi:10.1136/jech.2008.086520
  • Gibson, M., Petticrew, M., Bambra, C., Sowden, A. J., & Wright, K. E. (2011). Housing and health inequalities: A synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health. Health & Place, 17, 175–184. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.09.011
  • Gifford, R., & Lacombe, C. (2006). Housing quality and children’s socioemotional health. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 21, 177–189. doi:10.1007/s10901-006-9041-x
  • Heckman, J. J. (1981). Heterogeneity and state dependence. In S. Rosen (Ed.), Studies in labor markets (pp. 91–140). Chicago, IL: Chicago Press.
  • Howden-Chapman, P., & Wilson, N. (2000). Housing and health. In P. Howden-Chapman & M. Tobias (Eds.), Social inequalities in health: New Zealand 1999 (pp. 133–145). Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health.
  • Lloyd, E. L., McCormack, C., McKeever, M., & Syme, M. (2008). The effect of improving the thermal quality of cold housing on blood pressure and general health: A research note. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 62, 793–797. doi:10.1136/jech.2007.067835
  • Mallett, S., Bentley, R., Baker, E., Mason, K., Keys, D., Kolar, V., & Krnjacki, L. (2011). Precarious housing and health inequalities: What are the links? Melbourne, Australia: VicHealth.
  • Mason, E. K., Baker, E., Blakely, T., & Bentley, R. J. (2013). Housing affordability and mental health: Does the relationship differ for renters and home purchasers? Social Science & Medicine, 94, 91–97. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.06.023
  • Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. (2013). Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey 2012 Annual Report, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Mundlak, Y. (1978). On the pooling of time series and cross section data. Econometrica, 46(1), 69–85.
  • Paris, C. (1993). Housing Australia. Melbourne: MacMillan.
  • Pevalin, D. J., Taylor, M. P., & Todd, J. (2008). The dynamics of unhealthy housing in the UK: A panel data analysis. Housing Studies, 23(5), 679–695.
  • Phibbs, P., & Thompson, S. (2011). The health impacts of housing: Toward a policy-relevant research agenda (AHURI Final Report No.173). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.
  • Pholeros, P., Rainow, S., & Torzillo, P. (1993). Housing for health: Towards a healthy living environment for Aboriginal Australia. Newport Beach, Australia: Health Habitat.
  • Schoeppe, S., & Braubach, M. (2007). Tackling obesity by creating healthy residential environments. Copenhagen, Denmark: WHO Publication.
  • Shepherd, C., Li, J., Mitrou, F., & Zubrik, R. (2012). Socioeconomic disparities in the mental health of Indigenous children in Western Australia. BMC Public Health, 12, 1–12. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-756
  • Snow, J. (1855). On the mode of communication of cholera, (2nd ed.). London: John Churchill.
  • Thomson, H., Thomas, S., Sellstrom, E., & Petticrew, M. (2009). The health impacts of housing improvement: A systematic review of intervention studies from 1887 to 2007. American Journal of Public Health, 99, S681–S692. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.143909
  • Torzillo, P., Pholeros, P., Rainow, S., Barker, G., Sowerbutts, T., Short, T., & Irvine, A. (2008). The state of health hardware in Aboriginal communities in rural and remote Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 32(1), 7–11. doi:10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00158.x
  • Waters, A. (2001). Do housing conditions impact on health inequalities between Australia’s rich and poor? Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Monograph.
  • Wooden, M., & Watson, N. (2007). The HILDA survey and its contribution to economic and social research (so far). Economic Record, 83, 208–231. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00395.x

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.