Homes and Health: How Housing and Health Interact
- ISBN-10
- 1135829519
- ISBN-13
- 9781135829513
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 118
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-10-04
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Bernard Ineichen
Description
This book links where people live with their health. The author reviews how housing has influenced health throughout the past hundred and fifty years, discusses in detail current issues concerning housing and health and describes attempts at housing particular groups whose health is at risk.
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