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The health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing
BACKGROUND: Although social housing provides access to safe and affordable housing, recent studies have found that social housing tenants consistently have lower levels of health and well-being compared to other people. Given this, there is a need to examine multimorbidity for social housing tenants...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10675914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38001441 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17267-2 |
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author | Freund, Megan Clapham, Matthew Ooi, Jia Ying Adamson, David Boyes, Allison Sanson-Fisher, Robert |
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description | BACKGROUND: Although social housing provides access to safe and affordable housing, recent studies have found that social housing tenants consistently have lower levels of health and well-being compared to other people. Given this, there is a need to examine multimorbidity for social housing tenants. METHODS: Secondary data analysis of the 2017-18 Australian National Health Survey (n = 14,327) compared the health of adults residing in social housing compared to people in other housing types (private rentals, homeowners, and homeowners/mortgagees). RESULTS: Most health factors examined were more prevalent in social housing tenants compared to those living in other housing types. Individual health problems identified as more highly prevalent in social housing tenants compared to all other housing types included mental health issues (43%), arthritis (36%), back problems (32%), hypertension (25%), asthma (22%) and COPD (11%). 24% of social housing tenants reported five or more health factors compared to 3–6% of people in other housing types. CONCLUSIONS: Although these findings are not unexpected, they provide more detailed evidence that social housing providers and policy makers should consider when planning future initiatives. |
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spelling | pubmed-106759142023-11-24 The health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing Freund, Megan Clapham, Matthew Ooi, Jia Ying Adamson, David Boyes, Allison Sanson-Fisher, Robert BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Although social housing provides access to safe and affordable housing, recent studies have found that social housing tenants consistently have lower levels of health and well-being compared to other people. Given this, there is a need to examine multimorbidity for social housing tenants. METHODS: Secondary data analysis of the 2017-18 Australian National Health Survey (n = 14,327) compared the health of adults residing in social housing compared to people in other housing types (private rentals, homeowners, and homeowners/mortgagees). RESULTS: Most health factors examined were more prevalent in social housing tenants compared to those living in other housing types. Individual health problems identified as more highly prevalent in social housing tenants compared to all other housing types included mental health issues (43%), arthritis (36%), back problems (32%), hypertension (25%), asthma (22%) and COPD (11%). 24% of social housing tenants reported five or more health factors compared to 3–6% of people in other housing types. CONCLUSIONS: Although these findings are not unexpected, they provide more detailed evidence that social housing providers and policy makers should consider when planning future initiatives. BioMed Central 2023-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10675914/ /pubmed/38001441 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17267-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Freund, Megan Clapham, Matthew Ooi, Jia Ying Adamson, David Boyes, Allison Sanson-Fisher, Robert The health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing |
title | The health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing |
title_full | The health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing |
title_fullStr | The health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing |
title_full_unstemmed | The health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing |
title_short | The health and wellbeing of Australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing |
title_sort | health and wellbeing of australian social housing tenants compared to people living in other types of housing |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10675914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38001441 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17267-2 |
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