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Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research
Housing may be at once the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Using examples from the USA, we argue that current levels of housing insecurity are the result of clear and inequitable policy choices, leading to the entrenchment of health inequities—particula...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9279751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35701105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-216439 |
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author | Leifheit, Kathryn M Schwartz, Gabriel L Pollack, Craig Evan Linton, Sabriya L |
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description | Housing may be at once the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Using examples from the USA, we argue that current levels of housing insecurity are the result of clear and inequitable policy choices, leading to the entrenchment of health inequities—particularly, across race and class. Solutions to housing insecurity must, therefore, be structural. The COVID-19 pandemic has opened a window of opportunity for these structural housing policy reforms. Through justice- and action-oriented research, health researchers can inform the development and implementation of housing policies that advance health equity. We offer a series of recommendations to better position our field to achieve this goal. |
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spelling | pubmed-92797512022-08-01 Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research Leifheit, Kathryn M Schwartz, Gabriel L Pollack, Craig Evan Linton, Sabriya L J Epidemiol Community Health Essay Housing may be at once the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Using examples from the USA, we argue that current levels of housing insecurity are the result of clear and inequitable policy choices, leading to the entrenchment of health inequities—particularly, across race and class. Solutions to housing insecurity must, therefore, be structural. The COVID-19 pandemic has opened a window of opportunity for these structural housing policy reforms. Through justice- and action-oriented research, health researchers can inform the development and implementation of housing policies that advance health equity. We offer a series of recommendations to better position our field to achieve this goal. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-08 2022-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9279751/ /pubmed/35701105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-216439 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Essay Leifheit, Kathryn M Schwartz, Gabriel L Pollack, Craig Evan Linton, Sabriya L Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research |
title | Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research |
title_full | Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research |
title_fullStr | Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research |
title_full_unstemmed | Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research |
title_short | Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research |
title_sort | building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research |
topic | Essay |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9279751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35701105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-216439 |
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