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How much does the condition of our housing affect our health? This
timely new study looks in detail at the impact poor housing has on
health, using data from the National Child Development Study
(NCDS). It provides important information to inform the current
debate on Our Healthier Nation and to strengthen arguments for
health, housing and social care agencies to work together. It
focuses on three main areas: if, and when, housing deprivation
impacts on overall health; the link between overcrowding and
respiratory and infectious disease; housing deprivation and health
in the context of other possible influences on health. The study
uses the innovative approach of creating indices for both the
severity of ill-health and housing deprivation. These indices are
incorporated into an analysis of the impact over time of housing
deprivation upon health. The authors conclude that housing plays a
significant role in health outcomes and hence provides support for
the argument that addressing housing deprivation should be central
to thinking about health improvement. Home Sweet Home? is essential
reading for researchers and students in housing, public health,
urban renewal, and social policy as well as professionals working
in these areas.
While the future shape and direction of housing policy is
uncertain, the process of transformation looks set to continue. A
wide range of housing policy initiatives emerged during the first
term of the New Labour government and 2000 saw the publication of
the first major policy statement on housing for over 10 years - the
government's much anticipated Housing Green Paper. This book makes
a distinctive and innovative contribution to the debate. Bringing
together leading scholars from the fields of housing law and
housing policy, it aims to engage with the central concerns of
policy and to demonstrate that the parallel debates of housing
studies and socio-legal studies can be strengthened by a fuller
exchange of ideas. Each chapter examines a key theme in
contemporary housing policy and seeks to locate policy in relation
to broader theoretical debates about the provision of social
welfare. Two steps forward is essential reading for academics,
students and policy makers with an interest in housing policy and
law, as well as students on wider social policy, public
administration, policy and management courses.
The issue of homelessness has become extremely important in policy
debates during the 1990s. Yet analysis that links the phenomenon of
homelessness to wider debates about the changing social and
economic environment remains relatively underdeveloped. This
important new book brings together contemporary theoretical debates
and original empirical research in order to explore the nature,
experience and impact of social change in the new 'landscape of
precariousness', in which new sets of risks and uncertainties have
emerged. It adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, which is
essential in developing a more subtle understanding of both the
complex processes leading to, and the experience of, homelessness.
Central to contemporary theory and practice is the enhancement of
our understanding of how homelessness, disadvantage and social
exclusion impact differently on various social groups. Homelessness
provides a strong contribution to the academic debate, and is
essential reading for students and researchers in a range of
subject areas, including housing studies, social policy,
socio-legal studies and public administration.
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