Association of childhood mortality with housing status and unemployment.

Brennan, Mary E.; Lancashire, R

doi:10.1136/jech.32.1.28

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“…1,5,6 Poor housing conditions, including residential crowding and household disrepair, have been shown to elevate the risk of household accidents, asthma, tuberculosis, other respiratory infections, and all-cause mortality. 1,[7][8][9] Conversely, improvements in housing may favor cardiovascular and respiratory health. 10 Few studies have examined the link between housing quality and mental health.…”

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Household Disrepair and the Mental Health of Low-Income Urban Women

2011

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We employ longitudinal survey data from the Welfare, Children, and Families project (1999, 2001) to examine the effects of household disrepair (e.g., living with leaky structures, busted plumbing, broken windows, and pests) on psychological distress among low-income urban women with children. Building on previous research, we adjust for related housing concepts, neighborhood disorder, financial hardship, and a host of relevant background factors. We also formally test the mediating influences of social support and self-esteem. Our cross-sectional analysis indicated that household disrepair is positively associated with recent symptoms of psychological distress. Our longitudinal change score analysis demonstrates two important patterns. First, women living with household disrepair at baseline are not necessarily vulnerable to increases in symptoms of psychological distress over the 2-year study period. Second, women who report an increase in disrepair over the study period are also likely to report a concurrent increase in symptoms of distress. Although social support and self-esteem favor mental health in our cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, these psychosocial resources fail to mediate or explain the association between disrepair and distress.

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Household Disrepair and the Mental Health of Low-Income Urban Women

2011

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“…This model has been found to fit data from several countries but for the English data, at least, it exaggerates the true picture. '7 In addition 2 studies of infant mortality'8 19 found it related to father's unemployment and in the latter study the association remained after adjustment for social class.…”

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Unemployment, birthweight, and growth in the first year.

Cole¹,

Donnet²,

Stanfield³

1983

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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SUMMARYIn a cross sectional sample of 655 Glasgow babies the mean birthweight, after adjusting for other factors, of those with unemployed fathers was 150 g less (P<0.02) than for babies whose fathers were employed. A longitudinal study of 107 babies from 2 contrasting areas in Glasgow one of which was a socially deprived area was carried out concuriently. The deficit in length of 2-6% for infants from the deprived area at age 12 months was completely explained by adjusting for length at 1 month, father's height, and father's employment status (P<0 01). The effect of unemployment on the babies' birthweight was not affected by adjustment for sccial class. Unemployment may be related to poor infant growth in inner city areas and a national study is needed to see if the recent rise in unemployment has affected this association.

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“…52 Negative effects of poor housing environments have been shown in some studies conducted in the United States, Northern Ireland, Canada, Pakistan, and India. These studies focused on infrastructure and the housing environment, 47,48 including density and defensible space, 15 crowding, 56 violence and security, 16,57 temperature and dampness, [17][18][19]30,58 and economic deprivation-all of which were found to be related to physical or mental health of the inhabitants. 14,20,45 Other studies have also looked at health outcomes in deprived neighborhoods.…”

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confidence: 99%