Does housing tenure predict health in the UK because it exposes people to different levels of housing related hazards in the home or its surroundings?

Health and Place

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-150

  Ellaway, Anne ^a   Macintyre, Sally ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Gender; Health; Housing stressors; Housing tenure; Income; Social class

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CRIME; CROWDING; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; DEPRESSION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HEATING; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGEVITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING;

EID: 0032103252     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(98)00006-9     Document Type: Article

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