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Type: Journal article
Title: Poor housing quality: prevalence and health effects
Author: Baker, E.
Lester, L.
Bentley, R.
Beer, A.
Citation: Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 2016; 44(4):219-232
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Issue Date: 2016
ISSN: 1085-2352
1540-7330
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Emma Baker, Laurence H. Lester, Rebecca Bentley and Andrew Beer
Abstract: Housing is a central component of productive, healthy, and meaningful lives, and a principle social determinant of health and well-being. Surprisingly, though, evidence on the ways that housing influences health in Australia is poorly developed. This stems largely from the fact that the majority of the population are accommodated in good quality housing. The dominance of a “good housing paradigm” means that households living in poor quality and unhealthy housing are doubly disadvantaged—by the quality of their housing and because policy makers in Australia do not acknowledge the health effects of housing. In this article, we examine the relationship between health outcomes and quality of housing. We base our analysis on data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, a panel dataset that is representative across Australia. We find a sizeable, policy-important, and to date under-acknowledged cohort of Australians whose health is influenced by poor-condition dwellings.
Keywords: Australia; health inequalities; HILDA survey; housing; housing quality; panel data analysis
Rights: © 2016 Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/10852352.2016.1197714
Grant ID: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP120102974
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2016.1197714
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