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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (476 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Unhealthy Housing -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: The Parameters of Health and Housing Research -- 1. Understanding the problems of health and housing research: David Mant -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Spot the method -- 1.3 Methods and their problems: descriptive studies -- 1.4 Case Control Studies -- 1.5 Longitudinal studies -- 1.6 Intervention studies -- 1.7 Extrapolative studies -- 1.8 Practising appraisal -- 1.9 Avoiding problems -- 1.10 Further reading -- Bibliography -- 2. Using published data to assess health risks: Colin Thunhurst -- 2.1 Social scientific investigation and the use of secondary data -- 2.2 The rediscovery of inequalities in health -- 2.3 Programmes of action -- 2.4 Secondary studies: housing as an explanatory variable -- 2.5 Alternative views of the process of research -- 2.6 Strengthening the use of secondary sources -- Bibliography -- 3. Housing and the health of the community: David Byrne and Jane Keithley -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Relationships between housing and health: the recent evidence -- 3.3 Health and illness: individual or collective attributes? -- 3.4 'Aggregate health' and housing -- 3.5 The ecological and atomist fallacies -- 3.6 The causes of health and illness -- 3.7 Identifying community health and doing something about it -- Bibliography -- Part Two: The Identification and Evaluation of Hazards -- 4. Damp and mouldy housing: a holistic approach: Sonja Hunt -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Housing as a health hazard -- 4.3 Dampness, mould growth and health status -- 4.4 Longitudinal studies -- 4.5 Long-term effects -- Bibliography -- 5. Dampness, mould growth and respiratory disease in children: Peter Strachan -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The scope of epidemiological research. |
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5.3 Epidemiological studies of dampness, mould growth and respiratory disease in children -- 5.4 A population survey of damp housing and childhood asthma -- 5.5 Objective measurement of asthma -- 5.6 Measurement of airborne mould spores -- 5.7 Assessment of causality -- 5.8 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 6. Cold- and heat-related illnesses in the indoor environment: K.J. Collins -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Thermal factors and health -- 6.3 The comfort zone -- 6.4 Temperature requirements and morbidity in children -- 6.5 Humidity, cold and respiratory disorders -- 6.6 Cardiovascular responses in the cold -- 6.7 Urban hypothermia -- 6.8 Winter mortality and cold homes -- 6.9 Heat-related illnesses in the urban environment -- 6.10 Accident rates and ambient temperature -- Bibliography -- 7. Cold, condensation and housing poverty: Thomas A. Markus -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Material factors -- 7.3 Material effects -- 7.4 Personal and social effects -- 7.5 Climate -- 7.6 Cold and poverty -- 7.7 The Glasgow dimension -- Bibliography -- 8. Mental health and high-rise housing: Hugh Freeman -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Historical background -- 8.3 Methodological issues -- 8.4 Empirical studies of high-rise housing -- 8.5 High-rise living as a pathogenic factor -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Bibliography -- 9. Women, crowding and mental health: Jonathan Gabe and Paul Williams -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Women, household crowding and health -- 9.3 Methods -- 9.4 Findings -- 9.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 10. Crowding and mortality in London boroughs: John M. Kellett -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Total mortality -- 10.3 Specific mortality -- 10.4 Death certification -- 10.5 Aetiological hypothesis -- 10.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 11. Accidents at home: the modern epidemic: Ray Ransom -- 11.1 Introduction. |
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11.2 Scale of the problem -- 11.3 Vulnerable groups and epidemiological characteristics -- 11.4 Conception of the problem -- 11.5 Responding to the challenge -- 11.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Appraisal checklist for home safety -- 12. The effects on human health of pest infestation in houses: Michael Howard -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Insect pests -- 12.3 Arachnids -- 12.4 Vertebrate pests -- 12.5 The control of pests in houses: integrated pest management -- 12.6 Building design and infestations: the example of Hulme, Manchester -- 12.7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 13. Ill-health and homelessness: the effects of living in bed-and-breakfast accommodation: Jean Conway -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The research -- 13.3 The response of health services -- 13.4 The response of housing services -- 13.5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part Three: Remedies and Reforms -- 14. Fundamentals of healthful housing: their application in the 21st century: Eric W. Mood -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Housing and health for all -- 14.3 Specific characteristics of healthful housing -- 14.4 The role of housing in home accidents -- 14.5 Fundamental psychological requirements -- 14.6 Fundamental physiological requirements -- 14.7 Creating healthful housing -- Bibliography -- 15. An ecological blueprint for healthy housing: Roderick J. Lawrence -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Theoretical principles -- 15.3 Methodological principles -- 15.4 From principles to policies and implementation -- 15.5 The consequences of high-rise housing -- 15.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 16. The environmental assessment of new houses: Gary J. Raw and Josephine J. Prior -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Buildings and environmental issues -- 16.3 The basis of BREEAM for new homes -- 16.4 Global atmospheric pollution -- 16.5 Local issues and use of resources. |
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16.6 Storage of recyclable materials -- 16.7 Ecological value of site -- 16.8 Local public transport -- 16.9 Indoor issues -- 16.10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 17. Prospects for affordable warmth: Brenda Boardman -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 The health problem -- 17.3 How much warmth? -- 17.4 What is affordable? -- 17.5 Measuring energy efficiency -- 17.6 Heating systems -- 17.7 Thermal insulation standards/energy efficiency levels -- 17.8 Government programmes -- 17.9 Recent legislation -- 17.10 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 18. The legal environment of housing conditions: Roger Burridge and David Ormandy -- 18.1 The contours of legal intervention -- 18.2 Public and private legal action -- 18.3 The limitations of private law -- 18.4 The shape of statutory intervention -- 18.5 The withdrawal from enforcement -- 18.6 Private law responses -- 18.7 The legal promotion of community health -- 18.8 Future perspectives -- Acknowledgement -- Bibliography -- 19. Cities 2000 projects: goldfish bowl: Geoff Green -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 Historical background -- 19.3 The New Public Health -- 19.4 Problems and weaknesses -- 19.5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Unhealthy Housing presents an analysis of the research into the health implications of housing and the significance for legal regulation of housing conditions. Key experts present short papers, together with an overview to give an evaluation of the significance of housing on the health of occupiers. |
| Note |
Publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| Subject |
Housing and health -- Great Britain.
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Housing and health.
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Housing policy -- Great Britain.
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Housing policy.
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Housing and health. (OCoLC)fst00962367
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Housing policy. (OCoLC)fst00962432
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Added Author |
Ormandy, D.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burridge, R. Unhealthy Housing : Research, remedies and reform. London : Taylor and Francis, ©2005 9780419154105 |
| ISBN |
9780203974254 (electronic bk.) |
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0203974255 |
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9780419154105 |
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