Table of Contents: Unhealthy Housing :

Unhealthy Housing : Research, Remedies and Reform.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Burridge, R.
Other Authors:	Ormandy, D.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Milton : CRC Press LLC, 1993.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Front Cover
Unhealthy Housing
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Parameters of Health and Housing Research
1. Understanding the problems of health and housing research: David Mant
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Spot the method
1.3 Methods and their problems: descriptive studies
1.4 Case Control Studies
1.5 Longitudinal studies
1.6 Intervention studies
1.7 Extrapolative studies
1.8 Practising appraisal
1.9 Avoiding problems
1.10 Further reading
Bibliography
2. Using published data to assess health risks: Colin Thunhurst
2.1 Social scientific investigation and the use of secondary data
2.2 The rediscovery of inequalities in health
2.3 Programmes of action
2.4 Secondary studies: housing as an explanatory variable
2.5 Alternative views of the process of research
2.6 Strengthening the use of secondary sources
Bibliography
3. Housing and the health of the community: David Byrne and Jane Keithley
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Relationships between housing and health: the recent evidence
3.3 Health and illness: individual or collective attributes?
3.4 'Aggregate health' and housing
3.5 The ecological and atomist fallacies
3.6 The causes of health and illness
3.7 Identifying community health and doing something about it
Bibliography
Part Two: The Identification and Evaluation of Hazards
4. Damp and mouldy housing: a holistic approach: Sonja Hunt
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Housing as a health hazard
4.3 Dampness, mould growth and health status
4.4 Longitudinal studies
4.5 Long-term effects
Bibliography
5. Dampness, mould growth and respiratory disease in children: Peter Strachan
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The scope of epidemiological research.
5.3 Epidemiological studies of dampness, mould growth and respiratory disease in children
5.4 A population survey of damp housing and childhood asthma
5.5 Objective measurement of asthma
5.6 Measurement of airborne mould spores
5.7 Assessment of causality
5.8 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
6. Cold- and heat-related illnesses in the indoor environment: K. J. Collins
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Thermal factors and health
6.3 The comfort zone
6.4 Temperature requirements and morbidity in children
6.5 Humidity, cold and respiratory disorders
6.6 Cardiovascular responses in the cold
6.7 Urban hypothermia
6.8 Winter mortality and cold homes
6.9 Heat-related illnesses in the urban environment
6.10 Accident rates and ambient temperature
Bibliography
7. Cold, condensation and housing poverty: Thomas A. Markus
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Material factors
7.3 Material effects
7.4 Personal and social effects
7.5 Climate
7.6 Cold and poverty
7.7 The Glasgow dimension
Bibliography
8. Mental health and high-rise housing: Hugh Freeman
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Historical background
8.3 Methodological issues
8.4 Empirical studies of high-rise housing
8.5 High-rise living as a pathogenic factor
8.6 Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Bibliography
9. Women, crowding and mental health: Jonathan Gabe and Paul Williams
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Women, household crowding and health
9.3 Methods
9.4 Findings
9.5 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
10. Crowding and mortality in London boroughs: John M. Kellett
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Total mortality
10.3 Specific mortality
10.4 Death certification
10.5 Aetiological hypothesis
10.6 Conclusion
Bibliography
11. Accidents at home: the modern epidemic: Ray Ransom
11.1 Introduction.
11.2 Scale of the problem
11.3 Vulnerable groups and epidemiological characteristics
11.4 Conception of the problem
11.5 Responding to the challenge
11.6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix: Appraisal checklist for home safety
12. The effects on human health of pest infestation in houses: Michael Howard
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Insect pests
12.3 Arachnids
12.4 Vertebrate pests
12.5 The control of pests in houses: integrated pest management
12.6 Building design and infestations: the example of Hulme, Manchester
12.7 Conclusion
Bibliography
13. Ill-health and homelessness: the effects of living in bed-and-breakfast accommodation: Jean Conway
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The research
13.3 The response of health services
13.4 The response of housing services
13.5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Part Three: Remedies and Reforms
14. Fundamentals of healthful housing: their application in the 21st century: Eric W. Mood
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Housing and health for all
14.3 Specific characteristics of healthful housing
14.4 The role of housing in home accidents
14.5 Fundamental psychological requirements
14.6 Fundamental physiological requirements
14.7 Creating healthful housing
Bibliography
15. An ecological blueprint for healthy housing: Roderick J. Lawrence
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Theoretical principles
15.3 Methodological principles
15.4 From principles to policies and implementation
15.5 The consequences of high-rise housing
15.6 Conclusion
Bibliography
16. The environmental assessment of new houses: Gary J. Raw and Josephine J. Prior
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Buildings and environmental issues
16.3 The basis of BREEAM for new homes
16.4 Global atmospheric pollution
16.5 Local issues and use of resources.
16.6 Storage of recyclable materials
16.7 Ecological value of site
16.8 Local public transport
16.9 Indoor issues
16.10 Conclusion
Bibliography
17. Prospects for affordable warmth: Brenda Boardman
17.1 Introduction
17.2 The health problem
17.3 How much warmth?
17.4 What is affordable?
17.5 Measuring energy efficiency
17.6 Heating systems
17.7 Thermal insulation standards/energy efficiency levels
17.8 Government programmes
17.9 Recent legislation
17.10 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
18. The legal environment of housing conditions: Roger Burridge and David Ormandy
18.1 The contours of legal intervention
18.2 Public and private legal action
18.3 The limitations of private law
18.4 The shape of statutory intervention
18.5 The withdrawal from enforcement
18.6 Private law responses
18.7 The legal promotion of community health
18.8 Future perspectives
Acknowledgement
Bibliography
19. Cities 2000 projects: goldfish bowl: Geoff Green
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Historical background
19.3 The New Public Health
19.4 Problems and weaknesses
19.5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

Unhealthy Housing : Research, Remedies and Reform.

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