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creators_name: Nix, Emily
creators_name: Ibbetson, Andrew
creators_name: Zhou, Ke
creators_name: Davies, Michael
creators_name: Wilkinson, Paul
creators_name: Ludolph, Ramona
creators_name: Pineo, Helen
title: Getting to effective housing policy for health: a thematic synthesis of policy development and implementation
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F34
keywords: Housing; health; policy
processes; review
note: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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abstract: Impacts of housing on health are well-recognised. Despite this, housing standards have been neglected and there are gaps in healthy housing policies, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Given the recent publication of the WHO Housing and health guidelines, and the need to implement these into policy at all scales, we carried out a focused search and thematic synthesis of available literature on the barriers and enablers to recent housing and health policy. We aimed to generate lessons of what works to support healthy housing policy development and implementation elsewhere. Twenty-three studies representing four countries were eligible for inclusion and covered housing-related risks of air quality, lead, accessible design, and housing conditions. Findings demonstrated that policy development and implementation were facilitated through awareness of housing and health, evidence of existing housing conditions and health impacts, collaborations across sectors and between residents and decision-makers and effective enforcement systems that employed incentives, tools such as certificates for compliance, and housing inspections. Concerns about economic viability and tensions between housing rights and responsibilities limited healthy housing policy for the ‘common good’. Despite limitations in the diversity of available evidence, this thematic synthesis provides a starting point for healthy and equitable housing for all.
date: 2024-04-04
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2024.2328951
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2266429
doi: 10.1080/23748834.2024.2328951
lyricists_name: Zhou, Ke
lyricists_name: Davies, Michael
lyricists_id: KZHOU23
lyricists_id: MDAVI86
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Cities and Health
issn: 2374-8834
citation:        Nix, Emily;    Ibbetson, Andrew;    Zhou, Ke;    Davies, Michael;    Wilkinson, Paul;    Ludolph, Ramona;    Pineo, Helen;      (2024)    Getting to effective housing policy for health: a thematic synthesis of policy development and implementation.                   Cities and Health        10.1080/23748834.2024.2328951 <https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2024.2328951>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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