Institute of Health News
NEW BOOK: Policy and Strategy for Improving Health and Wellbeing
Authors: Elizabeth Porter and Lesley Coles (University of Southampton)
(David Ormandy (IoH) co-author of chapter on Housing.)
Just Published: Environmental Burden of Disease associated with inadequate housing: Methods for quantifying health impacts of selected housing risks in the WHO European Region
This publication reviews the evidence on exposure to housing-related hazards and associated health effects, and provides guidance on how to quantify health impacts from inadequate housing for selected housing risk factors. The environmental burden of disease due to inadequate housing is estimated for eleven housing hazards, providing methodological examples to the housing and public health community to further quantify the health impacts of inadequate housing conditions.
Full report providing full assessment and evidence reviews:
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/142077/e95004.pdf
NEW BOOK: Thinking Ahead: Why We Need to Improve Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing
by William Bird, Elizabeth Burton, Alan Maryon-Davis, Margaret Murphy, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Katherine Weare, Phil Wilson. Edited by Rachael Jolley
- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Faculty of Public Health (Mar 2011)
- ISBN-10: 190027339X
- ISBN-13: 978-1900273398