Impact of Housing on Perceptions of Health and Well Being - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impact of Housing on Perceptions of Health and Well Being write by Tiffani V. Williams. This book was released on 2001. Impact of Housing on Perceptions of Health and Well Being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs
Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 1988-02-01. Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.
Communities in Action
Communities in Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communities in Action write by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This book was released on 2017-04-27. Communities in Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Newcomers' Perceptions of How Housing Discrimination Affected Their Health and Sense Of Wellbeing
Newcomers' Perceptions of How Housing Discrimination Affected Their Health and Sense Of Wellbeing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Newcomers' Perceptions of How Housing Discrimination Affected Their Health and Sense Of Wellbeing write by Gloria Wenyeve. This book was released on 2014. Newcomers' Perceptions of How Housing Discrimination Affected Their Health and Sense Of Wellbeing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Housing discrimination is a common problem experienced by disadvantaged groups in Torontos private housing markets, including newcomers. As a result, distribution of the burden of affordable housing shortage is skewed against members of the affected groups, exacerbating their vulnerabilities and exposing them to ill-health. Using one-on-one research interviews, my research investigated newcomers perceptions on how their experiences with housing discrimination related to their health. It began by exploring newcomers experiences with differential impact housing discrimination in Torontos private rental housing market: landlords/ housing providers application of various rules on disadvantaged house-seekers without making necessary accommodations to level the playing field for them, which aggravates their position of disadvantage. To contextualize newcomers experiences with differential impact housing discrimination, I examined the environment in which it was experienced, including, other forms of discrimination that may have intersected with and compounded its impact; as well as factors that enabled such discrimination to occur despite legislation against it. The research revealed widespread experiences with differential impact housing discrimination among newcomers, such as landlords requirement for possession of proof of employment, Canadian credit history in order to qualify for private rental housing. Demands by some landlords for payment of illegal large deposits and key money, were also revealed. Real and perceived forms of housing discrimination based on race, ethnicity and gender, practiced alongside differential impact housing discrimination were also exposed: differential treatment housing discrimination by definition. While racialized newcomers experienced these different forms of housing discrimination, their white counterparts did not. Affected newcomers reported experiencing health problems such as stress, anxiety, hypertension, and asthma while they were experiencing housing discrimination and after. They blamed their experiences with housing discrimination for aggravating their situations and contributing to the negative health outcomes.
Mobility, Sociability and Well-being of Urban Living
Mobility, Sociability and Well-being of Urban Living - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mobility, Sociability and Well-being of Urban Living write by Donggen Wang. This book was released on 2015-12-16. Mobility, Sociability and Well-being of Urban Living available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates critical urban issues related to socio-spatial segregation, housing, daily travel, mobility of the elderly, etc. from the perspective of wellbeing. This is a collection of the latest research works by frontline researchers working in the fields of geography, urban studies, transport, and sociology. Drawing on theoretical and empirical explorations, collected chapters in this book connect mobility and wellbeing, bridge geography and health, and analyze the implications of mobility disadvantages on urban marginal groups’ wellbeing. Research findings presented in the book are also highly relevant for practitioners and policy makers in the pursuit of improving urban livability since wellbeing, or quality of life, is increasingly considered as an important criteria alternative to income growth to evaluate economic, social and urban development.
