Cold housing environments: defining the problem for an appropriate policy response.

ABSTRACT: Researchers across disciplines are increasing attention to cold housing environments. Public health, environmental and social sciences, architecture, and engineering each define and measure cold housing environments differently. Lack of standardisation hinders our ability to combine evidence, determine prevalence, understand who is most at risk--and to formulate policy responses. We conducted a systematic, cross-disciplinary review of literature to document the measures used. We examined benefits and limitations of each approach and propose a conceptualisation of cold housing: where temperature is too low to support optimal health and wellbeing of inhabitants, measured using one or a combination of economic, 'objective', or subjective approaches. More accurate data on home temperatures for

SUBMITTER: Barlow CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10484804 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature