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Description for Home Sweet Home?
Paperback.
How much does the condition of our housing affect our health? This timely new study looks in detail at the impact poor housing has on health, using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS). It provides important information to inform the current debate on Our Healthier Nation and to strengthen arguments for health, housing and social care agencies to work together. It focuses on three main areas: if, and when, housing deprivation impacts on overall health; the link between overcrowding and respiratory and infectious disease; housing deprivation and health in the context of other possible influences on health. The study uses ... Read more
How much does the condition of our housing affect our health? This timely new study looks in detail at the impact poor housing has on health, using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS). It provides important information to inform the current debate on Our Healthier Nation and to strengthen arguments for health, housing and social care agencies to work together. It focuses on three main areas: if, and when, housing deprivation impacts on overall health; the link between overcrowding and respiratory and infectious disease; housing deprivation and health in the context of other possible influences on health. The study uses ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861341761
SKU
V9781861341761
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Alex Marsh
Alex Marsh is a Senior Research Fellow at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristolat the University of Bristol. Christina Pantazis is Head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice in the ... Read more
Reviews for Home Sweet Home?
"... an extremely thorough study." BMJ "The book adds to the current literature on health and housing, and will be a useful text to policy makers in the field." The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health "The contribution these research findings make to the housing and health debate cannot be emphasised too strongly ..The ... Read more