Housing tenure and disability in the UK: trends and projections 2004-2030.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Housing is a major influence on health. Housing tenure is associated with housing conditions, affordability, and security and is an important dimension of housing. In the UK there have been profound changes in both housing conditions and the distribution of households by tenure over the past century, that is during the lifetimes of the current population.

Methods

We firstly reviewed and summarise changes in housing conditions, housing policy and tenure distribution as they provide a context to possible explanations for health variations by housing tenure, including health related selection into different tenure types. We then use 2015-2021 data from a large nationally representative UK survey to analyse associations between housing tenure and self-reported disab

SUBMITTER: Murphy M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10795505 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature