| Summary report on what we know and what we still need to learn about the relationship between housing and children’s health, from a federally sponsored 11/7-8/2002 workshop |
Breysee P, Farr N, Galke W, Lanphear B, Morley B, Morley R, Bergofsky L. 2004.
The Relationship between Housing and Health: Children at Risk.
Environmental Health Perspectives, 112 (15): 1583-1588.
Housing quality is an important component of human health, and to understand health disparities by age, race/ethnicity and income. This peer-reviewed journal paper represents a summary report on what we know-- sciences and policy-- and what we still need to learn about the relationship between housing and children’s health, from a federally sponsored workshop in Annapolis, MD 11/7-8/2002 with a diverse group of 60 participants from the public, private, and government (local, state, federal) sectors.
The agenda had four sections. The first section dealt with housing factors (indoor air and environmental quality) associated with childhood asthma and related respiratory diseases. [NOTE: The information presented in the CAFA Briefing Kit fact sheet, “Asthma and Indoor Air Quality in the Home,” is more up-to-date (references through 3/04) but provided similar overall conclusions. The Briefing Kit is available in its entirety (with complete list of references) at http://www.calasthma.org/home/briefing_kit/.] The "best practices" for efforts to control asthma that were desired by participants included the consistent application of multiple interventions over long periods of time to address numerous known triggers, to encourage compliance, and to cover factors affecting positive behavior changes.
The fourth and final part of the agenda dealt with translating knowledge from past, current and future research (when funding made available) into primary preventive action with the development and promotion of cost-effective techniques to assess and control environmental asthma triggers. They discussed enforcing existing hazard elimination and control regulations at the local, state and federal levels; promoting federal healthy housing standards for public housing projects with government funding; and, convincing health care providers and policy organizations to focus more on primary prevention of asthma through reduction or elimination of the prevalence of, and exposure to, indoor environmental asthma triggers.
To view the abstract, please go to:
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2004/7157/abstract.html
To download a free copy of the article in PDF format (requires Adobe Acrobat v.6.0 reader), please go to:
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2004/7157/7157.pdf
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| Date posted: 12-09-2004 |
| Posted by: Community Action to Fight Asthma |
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