Unhealthy housing : research, remedies, and reform / / edited by Roger Burridge and David Ormandy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910348226403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : E. & F.N. Spon, , 1993
• ISBN: 1-135-83273-0; 1-135-83274-9; 1-280-23640-X; 9786610236404; 0-203-97425-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (476 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BurridgeRoger; OrmandyDavid
• Disciplina: 362.1/969/8; 363.5
• Soggetti: Housing and health; Housing and health - Great Britain; Housing policy; Housing policy - Great Britain; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Unhealthy Housing; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part One: The Parameters of Healthand 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 ControlStudies; 1.5Longitudinal studies; 1.6Intervention studies; 1.7Extrapolative studies; 1.8Practising appraisal; 1.9 Avoiding problems; 1.10Further reading; Bibliography; 2. Using published data to assess health risks: Colin Thunhurst; 2.1 Social scientific investigation and the use of secondarydata2.2 The rediscovery of inequalities in health; 2.3 Programmes of action; 2.4 Secondary studies: housing as an explanatory variable; 2.5Alternative ; 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 recentevidence; 3.3 Health and illness: individual or collective attributes?; 3.4'Aggregate health' and housing; 3.5 The ecological and atomist fallacies3.6The causes of health and illness; 3.7 Identifying community health and doing somethingabout it; Bibliography; Part Two: The Identification andEvaluation of Hazards; 4. Damp and mouldy housing: a holistic approach: Sonja Hunt; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Housing as a health hazard; 4.3Dampness, mould growth and health status; 4.4Longitudinal studies; 4.5 Long-termeffects; Bibliography; 5. Dampness, mould growth and respiratory disease in children: Peter Strachan; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2The scope of epidemiological research; 5.3 Epidemiological studies of dampness, mould growthand respiratory disease in children5.4 A population survey of damp housing and childhoodasthma; 5.5Objective measurement of asthma; 5.6Measurement of airborne mould spores; 5.7Assessment of causality; 5.8 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; 6. Cold- and heat-related illnesses in the indoor environment: K. J. Collins; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2Thermal factors and health; 6.3The comfort zone; 6.4Temperature requirements and morbidity in children; 6.5 Humidity, cold and respiratory disorders; 6.6 Cardiovascular responses in the cold; 6.7 Urban hypothermia6.8 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; 7.2Material 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; 8.3Methodological issues; 8.4 Empirical studies of high-rise housing; 8.5 High-rise living as a pathogenic factor
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.