House is very essential for shelter, security and safety. If the housing condition is not according to the criteria, then it may cause negative impact on health, especially in Low socioeconomic group of population living in rural and slums
Normally such a study requires a survey, and it's best to go and meet the respondents to do some interviews. A mixed method study may be just right. Have a look at this:
"Health and living conditions in eight Indian cities. National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), India, 2005-06.
Author:
Gupta K; Arnold F; Lhungdim H
Source:
Mumbai, India, International Institute for Population Sciences, 2009 Aug"
http://www.popline.org/node/209675
Dear @Mohan, please do find attached a list of many published research articles related to your thread (first link). I have attached also some papers as an example, that may help you in research.
https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?query=housing%20conditions%20and%20health&type=publication
Article Housing conditions and health: a crucial link
Article Health-Related Quality of Life of the Roma in Greece: The Ro...
Article Housing conditions and health
Dear Mohan
my opinion is that you have to determine the parametars of monitoring conditions in houses. For example, micro-climatic parameters and in door air pollutants are related to health, surface area in the home per capita (in my country minimal is 16 m2), furniture (formaldehyde and benzen emissions), Radon emissions trough the basement etc. After you collect the parametars you have to compare them with health condition of people who live in specific houses.
Article World health organization recommendations on ambient air quality
Conference Paper Analysis of Indoor Air Quality in a Naturally Venti-lated Un...
Article Re-evaluation of the WHO (2010) formaldehyde indoor air qual...
- UN Hábitat research and rules the minimal adecquate housing conditions, like healthy conditions, by the Adecquate House Letter and other Public documents. You can find more info in www.hic-al.org
Some Important variables but depends on local conditions:
-Construction material of house
- wall
- roof
- room size, quality,
-ventilation
- surrounding environment
- kitchen
etc
the way user perceives the environment can be categorized by receptors (e.g. auditory, olfactory, etc). Comparing the outcomes based on the specific housing condition (e.g. privacy) with the result of some questionnaires for human mental health (e.g. GHQ), can be helpful.
Undertake a systematic review! Your subject matter is far too broad at present (hence why you have been provided, above, with such a diverse range of papers) but check the Campbell Collaboration, the Cochrane Database (and, of course, Google Scholar) to determine what systematic reviews that have been undertaken. Perhaps do a quick scoping 'review of reviews', narrow down your area of interest, and take it from there?
Thanks Professor Lindbergh Ma'am for sharing CV regarding work you have done in relation to the housing conditions and health. Your work is marvelous about this specific topic. As my knowledge in my country regarding housing and construction of other apartments public health expertise are not involved even before and during the stay to know the quality of life regarding health aspect.
Sir, A small submission to you. Housing conditions in rural areas are completely different from housing conditions in urban slums.
In rural area we can observe more set back space around the house when compared to urban slum houses. We can also observe rearing of cattle, hens etc in the house premises.
But in urban slum areas we can observe overcrowded rooms with out any set back around the house. In fact most of the houses were attached to adjacent houses in urban slums.
Hi, there is a group who have been working in Australia for many years on just this issue.
You may wish to look at the health habitat and housing for health web sites:
http://www.healthabitat.com & http://www.housingforhealth.com
This work started in central Australia in the mid1980s and has now expanded to international sites. Based around health hardware model.
All the best, Dave
I agree that your investigation needs to be specific on what aspects of health you are wanting to research with housing. There is an important link, for example, between housing and injury prevention. Poor housing/poor conditions can lead to injuries such as falls. Also housing not up to standards can lead to injuries such as burns as well. There is also an issue with lead poisoning in older homes.
Dear Nayak, I agree that the housing conditions are little bit different in rural and urban settings. I am exploring this question. We are in process of preparing the protocol for the study. I am initial stage of the project. I am going through the literature regarding this question Thanks for sharing your view point.
How we can study housing conditions and health ?
This is very simple to do. Housing is agreed to be more than the physical edifice but includes its environment and facilities that make human life comfortable. It is one of the best indicators of a person’s standard of living. There are environmental induced diseases.Therefore, there is correlation between housing conditions and occupiers' health or well-being. As it is, one can study the relationship between the two variables in a residential neighbourhood or compare the state of housing conditions and status of occupiers' health in two different residential neighbourhoods within a city or in two separate cities or countries.
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