Residential overcrowding in relation to children's health, environment and schooling - a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To explore how overcrowding affects children's health, environment and schooling.

Methods

A qualitative study was conducted with individual interviews among 20 participants with occupational experience from overcrowded Stockholm areas but diverse in professions, locations and employers. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed with Systematic Text Condensation.

Results

Almost all participants expressed that overcrowding has a negative impact on children's health, environment and schooling - based on perceptions of precarious and different living conditions for children in overcrowded areas, for example, substandard homes, vulnerability, stress, exclusion, limited resources, lack of learning opportunities, gender differences, confinement, shame, insec

SUBMITTER: Lorentzen JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11476345 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature