Chapter
Housing, Neighbourhoods and Health
Abstract
Research on housing, neighborhoods, and health has been growing in the past several years, in part due to the interest in socioeconomic inequalities in health status observed in the affluent countries of the world. These inequalities are believed to be the result of socioeconomic differences in the quality of everyday living conditions, and attributes of housing and neighborhood are significant components of such conditions. Because housing and …
Authors
Dunn J
Book title
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Pagination
pp. 201-206
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
2009
DOI
10.1016/b978-008044910-4.00343-6