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9780419250500

Cutting the Cost of Cold: Affordable Warmth for Healthier Homes

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  • ISBN13:

    9780419250500

  • ISBN10:

    0419250506

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2000-06-08
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools available to the practitioner.

Table of Contents

Editors' note v
Abbreviations viii
About the authors ix
Introduction 3(14)
Brenda Boardman
Part One: Current research
Cold weather, cold homes and winter mortality
17(8)
William Keatinge
Gavin Donaldson
Housing and winter death: epidemiological evidence
25(11)
Paul Wilkinson
Megan Landon
Simon Stevenson
Cold, cold housing and respiratory illnesses
36(12)
Ken Collins
Cold stress, circulatory illness and the elderly
48(14)
James Goodwin
Dust mite allergens, indoor humidity and asthma
62(16)
Stirling Howieson
Alan Lawson
Impact of fuel poverty on health in Tower Hamlets
78(9)
Lutfa Khanom
Tolerant building: the impact of energy efficiency measures on living conditions and health status
87(20)
Geoff Green
Dave Ormandy
John Brazier
Jan Gilbertson
Part Two: Tools for research and practice
The Affordable Warmth Index
107(15)
Jake Chapman
Brian Scannell
Mould Index
122(12)
Tadj Oreszczyn
Stephen Pretlove
Winter morbidity and fuel poverty: mapping the connection
134(9)
Janet Rudge
Modelling the health cost of cold damp housing
143(12)
Jean Peters
Matt Stevenson
Part Three: Inter-agency partnership in practice
Asthma: lessons of the Cornwall Housing Intervention Study
155(11)
Ian Mackenzie
Margaret Somerville
Treating cold, damp and asthma with affordable warmth
166(10)
Rob Howard
Roger Critchley
Promoting partnership: the Nottingham example
176(6)
Helen Thompson
Urban care: working in partnership with communities
182(15)
Adrian Jones
Working in partnership: lessons from ten case studies
197(12)
Emma Jones
Victoria Wiltshire
Helena Poldervaart
Part Four: Ways forward
The cost of poor housing - and how to reduce it
209(13)
Peter Ambrose
Healthier homes: the role of health authorities
222(19)
Martin Bardsley
The unavoidable imperative: cutting the cost of cold
241(9)
Peter Smith
Glossary 250(1)
References 251(21)
Keywords index 272

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