The Residential Context of Health

by Hartig, Terry A.; Lawrence, Roderick; Frieze, Irene Hanson

• ISBN13: 9781405116695
• ISBN10: 1405116692
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Psychological and social processes that connect health with housing come into focus in this collection of original papers. Eminent European and North American scholars provide conceptual and analytical tools useful for further enhancing our understanding of the relations among housing, residence, and health. Features articles by eminent European and North American scholars, which investigate the psychological and social processes that connect health with housing. Explores how social ecological factors set the boundaries for the activities individuals engage in regarding their health and housing. Provides conceptual and analytical tools to further enhance understanding of the relationships between housing, residence, and health.

Author Biography

Terry Hartig is an Associate Professor of Psychology with the Institute for Housing and Urban Research and the Department of Psychology of Uppsala University. He completed graduate training in social ecology at the University of California at Irvine and postdoctoral training in social epidemiology at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on health values of nature experience, restorative environments, health in relation to residence, and the social ecology of stress and restoration.

Roderick J. Lawrence is Professor in the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Geneva, where he works in the Centre for Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences. In 1994 he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization’s European Centre for Environment and Health. In 1999 he was nominated Chair of the Evaluation Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization’s Healthy Cities Project for the European Region. In 2001 he was nominated to the WHO European Taskforce on Housing and Health.

Table of Contents

The Residential Context of Health
Terry Hartig
Roderick J. Lawrence
Introduction: The Residential Context of Health	455	(20)
Terry Hartig
Roderick J. Lawrence
EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF OUTCOMES AND PROCESSES
Housing and Mental Health: A Review of the Evidence and a Methodological and Conceptual Critique	475	(26)
Gary W. Evans
Nancy M. Wells
Annie Moch
OWNING VERSUS RENTING--HEALTH AND HOUSING TENURE
Housing as Health Capital: How Health Trajectories and Housing Paths Are Linked	501	(26)
Susan J. Smith
Donna Easterlow
Moira Munro
Katrina M. Turner
Residents and Residence: Factors Predicting the Health Disadvantage of Social Renters Compared to Owner-Occupiers	527	(20)
Rosemary Hiscock
Sally Macintyre
Ade Kearns
Anne Ellaway
RESIDENCE, POVERTY, AND HEALTH
Double Indemnity or Double Delight? The Health Consequences of Shared Housing and ``Doubling Up''	547	(22)
Sherry Ahrentzen
Poverty, Housing Niches, and Health in the United States	569	(22)
Susan Saegert
Gary W. Evans
RESIDENTIAL ACTIVITIES, STRESS, AND HEALTH
Focus on Home: What Time-Use Data Can Tell About Caregiving to Adults	591	(20)
William Michelson
Lorne Tepperman
Residence in the Social Ecology of Stress and Restoration	611	(26)
Terry Hartig
Gunn Johansson
Camilla Kylin
CONCLUDING COMMENT
Comment: Housing Policy and Health	637	(14)
Ralph Catalano
Eric Kessell
2002 SPSSI PRESIDENTIAL AWARD ADDRESS
Introduction to Geoff Maruyama's Presidential Address, June 29, 2002	651	(2)
Jennifer Crocker
Disparities in Educational Opportunities and Outcomes: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?	653
Geoffrey Maruyama