05371nam 22007813 450 991076582990332120231110172225.01-135-83273-01-135-83274-91-280-23640-X97866102364040-203-97425-510.4324/9780203974254 (CKB)1000000000255875(EBL)254378(OCoLC)475968570(SSID)ssj0000264970(PQKBManifestationID)11937558(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000264970(PQKBWorkID)10295092(PQKB)10346852(MiAaPQ)EBC254378(OCoLC)62118166(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30431(MiAaPQ)EBC7245073(Au-PeEL)EBL7245073(OCoLC)1378934737(EXLCZ)99100000000025587520231110d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnhealthy housing research, remedies, and reform /edited by Roger Burridge and David OrmandyFirst edition 1993.London ;New York :E. & F.N. Spon,1993.©19931 online resource (476 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-51171-2 0-419-15410-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Thunhurst2.1 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 housing3.5 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 research5.3 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 cold6.7 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 housing8.5 High-rise living as a pathogenic factorUnhealthy 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.Housing and healthHousing and healthGreat BritainHousing policyHousing policyGreat BritainHousing and health.Housing and healthHousing policy.Housing policy362.1/969/8Burridge RogerOrmandy DavidMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910765829903321Unhealthy housing1428367UNINA