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01-12-2011 | Commentary

Key challenges of housing and health from WHO perspective

Author: Matthias Braubach

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 6/2011

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Housing and health, often referred to in more general terms as “healthy buildings”, is an area of work that is based on contributions from many technical and professional disciplines: housing, engineering and construction, public health, environment, social welfare, urban planning, and building management. The combination of actions from all these sectors is necessary to provide healthy housing and shows the complexity of the subject, as well as its great potential to increase the quality of life of citizens through providing adequate and safe homes. …

WHO (2008) Closing the gap in a generation. Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Geneva, World Health Organization. Available at: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241563703_eng.pdf

WHO (2011) Environmental burden of disease associated with inadequate housing. Summary report. Copenhagen, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. Available at: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/145511/e95004sum.pdf

Title: Key challenges of housing and health from WHO perspective
Author: Matthias Braubach
Publication date: 01-12-2011
Publisher: SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 6/2011
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-011-0296-y

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