Healthy homes: Stakeholder perspectives on housing interventions to reduce environmentally mediated infections.

ABSTRACT: Housing conditions are intrinsically linked to human health, with inadequate housing potentially increasing exposure to environmentally mediated pathogens. Beyond efforts to improve water and sanitation and reduce household air pollution, housing improvements remain relatively under-explored as health interventions. This study explored facilitators of and barriers to funding, implementing, and scaling up of housing improvements as health interventions to reduce environmentally mediated infectious diseases. Sixteen key informants (KIs) with direct experience conducting housing interventions with a goal to reduce environmentally mediated infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries were interviewed using a semi-structured interview format. KIs had diverse backgrounds, including ac

SUBMITTER: Acklin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12011249 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature