Housing quality and ill health in a disadvantaged urban community

Public Health

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 174-181

  Habib, R R ^a   Mahfoud, Z ^a   Fawaz, M ^a   Basma, S H ^a   Yeretzian, J S ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Disadvantaged community; Housing quality; Informal settlement; Urban health

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOUSING; INTERVIEW; LEBANON; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; BEIRUT; BEYROUTH; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 59849093811     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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