Housing and health: an updated glossary

Adelle Mansour¹, Rebecca Bentley², Emma Baker³, Ang Li², Erika Martino², Amy Clair³, Lyrian Daniel³, Shiva Raj Mishra⁴, Natasha J Howard^{5

6}, Peter Phibbs⁷, David E Jacobs^{8

9}, Andrew Beer¹⁰, Tony Blakely⁴, Philippa Howden-Chapman¹¹

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¹ Healthy Housing, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia adelle.mansour@unimelb.edu.au.
² Healthy Housing, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
³ Australian Centre for Housing Research, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
⁴ Population Interventions, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
⁵ Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
⁶ Adelaide Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
⁷ Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁸ National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, Maryland, USA.
⁹ University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
¹⁰ UniSA Business, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
¹¹ He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.

PMID: 35760516
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2022-219085

Housing and health: an updated glossary

Adelle Mansour et al. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2022 Sep.

. 2022 Sep;76(9):833-838.

doi: 10.1136/jech-2022-219085. Epub 2022 Jun 27.

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¹ Healthy Housing, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia adelle.mansour@unimelb.edu.au.
² Healthy Housing, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
³ Australian Centre for Housing Research, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
⁴ Population Interventions, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
⁵ Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
⁶ Adelaide Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
⁷ Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁸ National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, Maryland, USA.
⁹ University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
¹⁰ UniSA Business, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
¹¹ He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.

PMID: 35760516
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2022-219085

Abstract

Recent crises have underscored the importance that housing has in sustaining good health and, equally, its potential to harm health. Considering this and building on Howden-Chapman's early glossary of housing and health and the WHO Housing and Health Guidelines, this paper introduces a range of housing and health-related terms, reflecting almost 20 years of development in the field. It defines key concepts currently used in research, policy and practice to describe housing in relation to health and health inequalities. Definitions are organised by three overarching aspects of housing: affordability (including housing affordability stress (HAS) and fuel poverty), suitability (including condition, accessibility and sustainable housing) and security (including precarious housing and homelessness). Each of these inter-related aspects of housing can be either protective of, or detrimental to, health. This glossary broadens our understanding of the relationship between housing and health to further promote interdisciplinarity and strengthen the nexus between these fields.

Keywords: HEALTH POLICY; HOUSING; Health inequalities.

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