The impact of the housing crisis on self-reported health in Europe: Multilevel longitudinal modelling of 27 EU countries

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 788-793

  Clair, Amy ^a   Reeves, Aaron ^a   Loopstra, Rachel ^a   McKee, Martin ^b   Dorling, Danny ^c   Stuckler, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84992365694     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckw071     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. WHO-Europe. Health in Times of Global Economic Crisis: Implications for the WHO European Region. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, 2009.
2. Gili M, Roca M, Basu S, et al. The mental health risks of economic crisis in Spain: evidence from primary care centres, 2006 and 2010. Eur J Public Health 2012;23:103-8.
3. Stuckler D, Basu S, Suhrcke M, et al. The public health impact of economic crises and alternative policy responses in Europe. Lancet 2009;374:315-23.
4. Dorling D. All That is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster. London: Penguin, 2014.
5. Britten R. The relation between housing and health. Public Health Rep 1934;49:1301-23.
6. Shaw M. Housing and public health. Annu Rev Public Health 2004;25:397-418.
7. Morrison DS. Homelessness as an independent risk factor for mortality: results from a retrospective cohort study. Int J Epidemiol 2009;43:1-7.
8. Taylor MP, Pevalin DJ, Todd J. The psychological costs of unsustainable housing commitments. Psychol Med 2007;37:1027-36.
9. Stuckler D, Basu S. The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills. London: Penguin, 2013.
10. Currie J, Tekin E. Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick? Available at: https://espe. conference-services. net/resources/321/2907/pdf/ESPE2012-0657-paper. pdf 2011.
11. Libman K, Fields D, Saegert S. Housing and health: a social ecological perspective on the US foreclosure crisis. Housing Theory Soc 2012;29:1-24.
12. Pevalin DJ, Taylor MP, Todd J. The dynamics of unhealthy housing in the UK: a panel data analysis. Housing Stud 2008;23:679-95.
13. Kushel MB, Gupta R, Gee L, Haas JS. Housing instability and food insecurity as barriers to health care among low-income Americans. J Gen Intern Med 2005;21:71-7.
14. Meltzer H, Bebbington P, Brugha T, et al. The relationship between personal debt and specific common mental disorders. Eur J Public Health 2013;23:108-13.
15. Keese M, Schmitz H. Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health. Availabel at: http://www. econstor. eu/bitstream/10419/45338/1/655955569. pdf 2010.
16. Nettleton S, Burrows R. Mortgage debt, insecure home ownership and health: an exploratory analysis. Socio Health Illness 1998;20:731-53.
17. Mason KE, Baker E, Blakely T, Bentley R. Housing affordability and mental health: does the relationship differ for renters and home purchasers? Soc Sci Med 2013;94:91-7.
18. Lowe S. Housing Policy Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
19. Europa. EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Available at: http://ec. europa. eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index. php/Glossary:EU-statistics- on-income-and-living-conditions-%28EU-SILC%29 n. d.
20. Iacovou M, Kaminska O, Levy H. Using EU-SILC Data for Cross-National Analysis: Strengths, Problems and Recommendations. Availabe at: https://www. iser. essex. ac. uk/ research/publications/working-papers/iser/2012-03. pdf: ISER;2012.
21. Eurostat. 2010 Comparative EU Intermediate Quality Report Brussels: European Commission, 2012.
22. Arora VS, Karanikolos M, Clair A, et al. Data resource profile: the European statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC). Int J Epidemiol 2015;44:451-61.
23. Gelman A. Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations. Stat Med 2008;27:2865-73.
24. Tu Y-K, Gilthorpe MS. Statistical Thinking in Epidemiology. Florida: CRC Press, 2011.
25. DiPrete TA, Eirich GM. Cumulative advantage as a mechanism for inequality: a review of theoretical and empirical developments. Annu Rev Socio 2006;32:271-97.
26. Andreev EM, McKee M, Shkolnikov VM. Health expectancy in Russia: a new perspective on the health divide in Europe. Bull World Health Organ 2003;81:778-87.
27. Jürges H. True health vs response styles: exploring cross-country differences in self-reported health. Health Econ 2007;16:163-78.
28. Zimmer Z, Natividad J, Lin H, Chayovan N. A cross-national examination of the determinants of self-assessed health. J Health Soc Behav 2000;41:465-81.
29. Yoo JP, Slack KS, Holl JL. Material hardship and the physical health of schoolaged children in low-income households. Am J Public Health 2009;99:829-36.
30. van Laere IR, de Wit MA, Klazinga NS. Pathways into homelessness: recently homeless adults problems and service use before and after becoming homeless in Amsterdam. BMC Public Health 2009;9: 3.
31. Fitzpatrick S, Bramley G, Johnsen S. Pathways into multiple exclusion homelessness in seven UK cities. Urban Stud 2012;50:148-68.
32. Nielsen SF, Hjorthøj CR, Erlangsen A, Nordentoft M. Psychiatric disorders and mortality among people in homeless shelters in Denmark: a nationwide registerbased cohort study. Lancet 2011;377:2205-14.
33. Fazel S, Khosla V, Doll H, Geddes J. The prevalence of mental disorders among the homeless in western countries: systematic review and MetaRegression analysis. PLoS Med 2008;5:e225.
34. Scottish Housing Regulator. Impact of Welfare Reform on rent arrears: Research Report 3. Glasgow, 2014.
35. Auditor General for Wales. Managing the Impact of Welfare Reform Changes On Social Housing Tenants in Wales. Cardiff, 2015.
36. Wilson W. RM, The impact of the under-occupation deduction from Housing Benefit (social rented housing). Availabe at: http://www. parliament. uk/briefingpapers/ SN068962014.
37. Fitzpatrick S, Pawson H, Bramley G, et al. The Homelessness Monitor: England 2015. London: Crisis and JRF, 2015.
38. National Housing Federation. Welfare reform impact assessment: Final report. London, 2015.
39. Wilson W. The Household Benefit Cap. Available at: http://www. parliament. uk/ briefing-papers/SN06294. pdf 2014.
40. Barnard H. The NHS: Reducing Poverty is the Key to Easing Pressure on Health Services. Available at: www. jrf. org. uk/blog/2015/01/nhs-reducing-poverty-keyeasing-pressure-health-services: JRF 2015.