The relationship of housing and population health: A 30-year retrospective analysis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 597-604

  Jacobs, David E ^a,b   Wilson, Jonathan ^a   Dixon, Sherry L ^a   Smith, Janet ^b   Evens, Anne ^b  

^a National Center for Healthy Housing   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

American housing survey (AHS); Asthma; Health disparities; Healthy housing; Housing; Lead poisoning; National health and nutrition Examination survey (NHANES)

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEAD POISONING; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROOM VENTILATION; SELF REPORT; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES;

AIR CONDITIONING; ASTHMA; BODY MASS INDEX; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEAD; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; ODORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 64049109202     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800086     Document Type: Article

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