Future directions in housing and public health: Findings from Europe with broader implications for planners

Journal of the American Planning Association

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-89

  Miles, Rebecca ^a   Jacobs, David ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Green communities; Health; Healthy communities; Housing

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; HOUSING CONDITIONS; HOUSING MANAGEMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65449127865     PISSN: 01944363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01944360701784287     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Ambrose, P. J. Living conditions and health promotion strategies. Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 121:1, pp. 9-15.
2. Berrigan, D. and Troriano, R. P. (2002) The association between urban form and physical activity in U.S. adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 23:2, pp. 74-79.
3. Bonnefoy, X., Braubach, M., Davidson, M. and Robbel, N. (2007) A pan-European housing and health survey: Description and evaluation of methods and approaches. International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 30:34, pp. 363-383.
4. Breysse, P., Farr, N., Galke, W., Lanphear, B., Morley, R. and Bergofsky, L. (2004) The relationship between housing and health: Children at risk. Environmental Health Perspectives, 112:15, pp. 1583-1588.
5. Byrne, D. S., Harrisson, S., Keithley, J. and McCarthy, P. (1986) Housing and health: The relationship between housing conditions and the health of council tenants, Gower, Brookfield, VT
6. Cagney, K. A. and Browning, C. R. (2004) Exploring neighborhood-level variation in asthma and other respiratory diseases. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 19:3, pp. 229-236.
7. Catalano, R. and Kessell, E. (2003) Comment: Housing policy and health. Journal of Social Issues, 59:3, pp. 637-649.
8. Corburn, J. and Bhatia, R. (2007) Health impact assessment in San Francisco: Incorporating the social determinants of health into environmental planning. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 50:3, pp. 323-341.
9. Curtis, S., Cave, B. and Coutts, A. (2002) Is urban regeneration good for health? Perceptions and theories of the health impacts of urban change. Environment and Planning C: Government & Policy, 20:4, pp. 517-534.
10. Dannenberg, A. L., Bhatia, R., Cole, B. L., Dora, C., Fielding, J. E. and Kraft, K. (2006) Growing the field of health impact assessment in the United States: An agenda for research and practice. American Journal of Public Health, 96:2, pp. 262-270.
11. Frank, L., Sallis, J. F., Conway, T., Chapman, J., Saelens, B. and Bachman, W. (2006) Many pathways from land use to health: Associations between neighborhood walkability and active transportation, body mass index, and air quality. Journal of the American Planning Association, 72:1, pp. 75-87.
12. Friedman, M. S., Powell, K. E., Hutwagner, L., Graham, L. R. M. and Teague, W. G. (2001) Impact of changes in transportation and commuting behaviors during the 1996 summer Olympic Games in Atlanta on air quality and childhood asthma. Journal of the American Medical Association, 285, pp. 897-905.
13. Fullilove, M. T. (2001) Root shock: The consequences of African American dispossession. Journal of Urban Health, 78:1, pp. 72-80.
14. Fullilove, M. T. (1998) Promoting social cohesion to improve health. Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, 53:2, pp. 72-76.
15. Hunt, S. (1993) Damp and mouldy housing: A holistic approach, E. & F. N. Spon, New York
16. Jacobs, D. E. (2004) Housing and health: Challenges and opportunities. Keynote address. Proceedings of the 2nd WHO International Housing and Health Symposium, pp. 35-50. Vilnius, Lithuania
17. Jacobs, D. E. (2006) A qualitative review of housing hazard assessment protocols in the United States. Environmental Research, 102:1, pp. 13-21.
18. Jacobs, M. A., Spilken, A. Z., Norman, M. M. and Anderson, L. S. (1970) Life stress and respiratory illness. Psychosomatic Medicine, 32:3, pp. 233-242.
19. Kozak, L. J., DeFrances, C. J. and Hall, M. J. (2006) National hospital discharge survey: 2004 annual summary with detailed diagnosis and procedure data. Vital and Health Statistics Series 13, Data from the National Health Survey, 162, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
20. Krieger, J. and Higgins, D. L. (2002) Housing and health: Time again for public health action. American Journal of Public Health, 92:5, pp. 758-768.
21. Leech, J. A., Raizenne, M. and Gusdorf, J. (2004) Health in occupants of energy efficient new homes. Indoor Air, 14:3, pp. 169-173.
22. Levy, J. I., Brugge, D., Peters, J. L., Clougherty, J. E. and Saddler, S. S. (2006) A community-based participatory research study of multifaceted in-home environmental interventions for pediatric asthmatics in public housing. Social Science & Medicine, 63:8, pp. 2191-2203.
23. Lowry, S. (1990) Housing and health: Accidents at home. British Medical Journal, 300:6717, pp. 104-106.
24. Mannino, D. M., Homa, D. M., Akinbami, L. J., Moorman, J. E., Gwynn, C. and Redd, S. C. (2002) Surveillance for asthma-United States,1980-1999. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Surveillance Summaries/CDC, 51:1, pp. 1-13.
25. Matte, T. D. and Jacobs, D. E. (2000) Housing and health-Current issues and implications for research and programs. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 77:1, pp. 7-25.
26. McConnell, R., Berhane, K., Gilliland, F., London, S. J., Islam, T. and Gauderman, W. J. (2002) Asthma in exercising children exposed to ozone: A cohort study. Lancet, 359:9304, pp. 386-391.
27. Miles, R. (2004) Smoking, housing conditions and respiratory health: Findings from the WHO LARES study. Proceedings of the 2nd WHO International Housing and Health Symposium, pp. 455-466. Vilnius, Lithuania
28. Miles, R. (2005) Preventing asthma through housing interventions: How supportive is the policy environment?. Housing Studies, 20:4, pp. 589-603.
29. Miles, R. (2006) Neighborhood disorder and smoking: Findings of a European urban survey. Social Science & Medicine, 63:9, pp. 2464-2475.
30. Miller, R. L., Acosta, L., Bell, C., Chew, G., Evans, D. and Northridge, M. (1999) Asthmatic children in northern Manhattan both highly exposed and sensitized to cockroach allergens in comparison to dust mite, mouse, and rat. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 159, p. A856.
31. Milstead, T. and Miles, R. (2006) Housing type, housing conditions and pest infestations in eight European cities. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 21, pp. 397-411.
32. Mitchell, I., Tough, S. C., Semple, L. K., Green, F. H. and Hessel, P. A. (2002) Near-fatal asthma: A population-based study of risk factors. Chest, 121:5, pp. 1407-1413.
33. Mood, E. W. (1986) APHA-CDC recommended minimum housing standards, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC
34. Morgan, W. J., Crain, E. F., Gruchalla, R. S., O'Connor, G. T., Kattan, M. and Evans, R. (2004) Results of a home-based environmental intervention among urban children with asthma. New England Journal of Medicine, 351:11, pp. 1068-1080.
35. National Academy of Sciences (2000) Clearing the air: Asthma and indoor air exposures, National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, DC
36. National Research Council (1986) Environmental tobacco smoke: Measuring exposures and assessing health effects, National Academy Press, Washington, DC
37. Niemann, H., Bonnefoy, X., Braubach, M., Hecht, K., Maschke, C. and Rodrigues, C. (2006) Noise-induced annoyance and morbidity results from the pan-European LARES study. Noise & Health, 8:31, pp. 63-79.
38. Northridge, M. E., Sclar, E. D. and Biswas, P. (2003) Sorting out the connections between the built environment and health: A conceptual framework for navigating pathways and planning healthy cities. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 80:4, pp. 556-568.
39. Oh, Y. M., Kim, Y. S., Yoo, S. H., Kim, S. K. and Kim, D. S. (2004) Association between stress and asthma symptoms: A population-based study. Respirology, 9:3, pp. 363-368.
40. Rosenstreich, D. L., Eggleston, P. A., Kattan, M., Baker, D., Slavin, R. G. and Gergen, P. (1997) The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among inner-city children with asthma. New England Journal of Medicine, 336:19, pp. 1356-1363.
41. Saegert, S. C., Klitzman, S., Freudenberg, N., Cooperman-Mroczek, J. and Nassar, S. (2003) Healthy housing: A structured review of published evaluations of interventions to improve health by modifying housing in the United States, 1990-2001. American Journal of Public Health, 93:9, pp. 1471-1477.
42. Sandel, M., Sharfstein, J. and Shaw, R. (1999) There's no place like home: How America's housing crisis threatens our children,: Housing America, San Francisco
43. Sears, M. R. (1997) Epidemiology of childhood asthma. Lancet, 350:9083, pp. 1015-1020.
44. Shenassa, E. D., Daskalakis, C., Liebhaber, A., Braubach, M. and Brown, M. J. (2007) Dampness and mold in the home and depression: An examination of mold-related illness and perceived control as possible pathways. American Journal of Public Health, 97:10, pp. 1893-1899.
45. Spielman, S. E., Golembeski, C. A., Northridge, M. E., Vaughan, R. D., Swaner, R. and Jean-Louis, B. (2006) Interdisciplinary planning for healthier communities: Findings from the Harlem Children's Zone Asthma Initiative. Journal American Planning Association, 72:1, pp. 100-108.
46. Stein, L. (1950) A study of respiratory tuberculosis in relation to housing conditions in Edinburgh. I. The pre-war period. British Journal of Social Medicine, 4:3, pp. 143-169.
47. Thomson, H., Petticrew, M. and Morrison, D. (2001) Health effects of housing improvement: Systematic review of intervention studies. British Medical Journal, 323:7306, pp. 187-190.
48. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2006) The health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke: A report of the Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, Atlanta, GA
49. Wataba, M. (1977) Summary of present codes and standards in the world, Building Research Institute, Tokyo
50. Weiss, K. B. and Sullivan, S. D. (2001) The health economics of asthma and rhinitis. I. Assessing the economic impact. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 107:1, pp. 3-8.
51. Weiss, K. B. and Wagener, D. K. (1990) Changing patterns of asthma mortality. Identifying target populations at high risk. Journal of the American Medical Association, 264:13, pp. 1683-1687.
52. World Health Organization (1948) The constitution of the World Health Organization, author, Geneva, Switzerland
53. World Health Organization (1999) Tobacco free initiative consultation report. International consultation on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and child health, author, Geneva, Switzerland
54. Wright, R. J. and Fisher, E. B. (2003) Putting asthma into context: Community influences on risk, behavior, and intervention. Neighborhoods and Health, pp. 233-262. Oxford University Press, New York