Young, poor, and sick: The public health threat of energy poverty for children in Ireland

Mohan, Gretta

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101822

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“…So far, asthma has been the most widely studied health effect of EP in children. Previous studies have shown that asthma is associated with cold homes and damp and mouldy conditions, and that interventions to reduce EP improve asthma symptoms in children and reduce school absence [19,[51][52][53]. The present study found a much higher percentage of children with asthma in households with EP.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…This is a 10-item questionnaire that provides a Rashed-scaled single score where higher scores indicate better HRQoL [33,34]. Finally, we also analysed two health outcomes that, according to the literature, can be significantly affected by EP, namely asthma and overweight [19,35]. Asthma was assessed through a chronic morbidity checklist, where the caregivers were asked, among others things, if the children suffered from asthma.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to the scarce existing literature, the main negative effects of EP on infants and young children concern physical health. In this age range, some studies suggest that EP is associated with a higher risk of health problems, mainly respiratory problems, greater health services use and worse disease course, with more recurrences [18][19][20]. Children living in EP are also at higher risk of under-nutrition or being overweight due to poor nutrition resulting from austerity in expenditure control, purchase of obesogenic products that are usually cheaper or, in more extreme cases, the inability to cook or preserve food [21,22].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Association of Energy Poverty with Health and Wellbeing in Children in a Mediterranean City

Oliveras

Borrell

González-Pijuan

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Children have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to energy poverty (EP), but little empirical research has addressed the effect of EP on children’s health and wellbeing, especially in southern Europe. In this work we aimed to provide an in-depth description of the distribution of EP by sociodemographic, socioeconomic and housing characteristics, as well as to analyse the association between EP and health and wellbeing in children in Barcelona. We performed a cross-sectional study using data from the Barcelona Health Survey for 2016 (n = 481 children under 15 years). We analysed the association between EP and health outcomes through prevalence differences and prevalence ratios (PR) and their 95% confidence interval (CI), using Poisson regression models with robust variance. In Barcelona, 10.6% of children were living in EP and large inequalities were found by sociodemographic, socioeconomic and housing characteristics. EP was strongly associated with poor health in children (PR (95% CI): 7.70 (2.86, 20.72)). Living in EP was also associated with poor mental health (PR (95% CI): 2.46 (1.21, 4.99)) and with more cases of asthma (PR (95% CI): 4.19 (1.47, 11.90)) and overweight (PR (95% CI): 1.50 (1.05, 2.15)) in children. It is urgent to develop specific measures to avoid such serious and unfair health effects on children.

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The Association of Energy Poverty with Health and Wellbeing in Children in a Mediterranean City

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González-Pijuan

et al. 2021

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“…However, this is particularly relevant for the vulnerable segments of the population, with low-income levels, since it configures the previously identified possibility of household energy poverty. According to Mohan (2021), despite this issue being recognized as a concern, its impacts are still understudied for vulnerable segments of the population [80].…”

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Health and Housing Energy Expenditures: A Two-Part Model Approach

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Interest in the interaction between energy and health within the built environment has been increasing in recent years, in the context of sustainable development. However, in order to promote health and wellbeing across all ages it is necessary to have a better understanding of the association between health and energy at household level. This study contributes to this debate by addressing the case of Portugal using data from the Household Budget Survey (HBS) microdata database. A two-part model is applied to estimate health expenditures based on energy-related expenditures, as well as socioeconomic variables. Additional statistical methods are used to enhance the perception of relevant predictors for health expenditures. Our findings suggest that given the high significance and coefficient value, energy expenditure is a relevant explanatory variable for health expenditures. This result is further validated by a dominance analysis ranking. Moreover, the results show that health gains and medical cost reductions can be a key factor to consider on the assessment of the economic viability of energy efficiency projects in buildings. This is particularly relevant for the older and low-income segments of the population.

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“…Low incomes, increasing energy prices, and poor energy performance of buildings have been identified as key drivers for EP in the EU context [5][6][7][8] As EP is a multifaceted problem [9], studies identifying or characterizing EP-affected households from different perspectives are available for several European locations. These include socio-economic [10][11][12][13], energy consumption [12,13], energy expenses [10][11][12][13], thermal comfort [10,11], dwelling characteristics [10][11][12][13], physical health [14,15], mental health and social relations [16] and gender [15,17] dimensions. In order to provide a point of comparison, results from EP-affected households have been often compared against non-affected peers in previous research.…”

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Tackling Energy Poverty through Collective Advisory Assemblies and Electricity and Comfort Monitoring Campaigns

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The present work aims to describe and analyze the results of the interventions carried out in the Barcelona pilot site of the EmpowerMed project. The overall objective of EmpowerMed is to tackle energy poverty and to help improve the health of people in coastal areas of Mediterranean countries, with a particular focus on women. The main support approach implemented in Barcelona is Collective Advisory Assemblies (CAA), in the framework of Alliance against Energy Poverty. CAA is an innovative, collaborative empowering engagement tool that offers an alternative to the more traditional one-off individual household advice and support approaches. CAAs take place together with a monitoring campaign where: electricity consumption is analyzed to optimize the supply contracts, and indoor environmental comfort to provide recommendations for wellbeing improvement. Through the different approaches, a characterization of the people that have participated in the Barcelona pilot site was completed, from a socioeconomic, energy, thermal comfort and air quality perspective. Additionally, it was compared with a group of energy poverty non-affected households, which are involved in the monitoring campaign. Finally, the impact was quantified in terms of empowerment of energy poverty population and, potential economic savings.

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Young, poor, and sick: The public health threat of energy poverty for children in Ireland

Cited by 45 publications

References 59 publications

The Association of Energy Poverty with Health and Wellbeing in Children in a Mediterranean City

The Association of Energy Poverty with Health and Wellbeing in Children in a Mediterranean City

Health and Housing Energy Expenditures: A Two-Part Model Approach

Tackling Energy Poverty through Collective Advisory Assemblies and Electricity and Comfort Monitoring Campaigns

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