Environmental Health and Housing

Provides the ideal introduction to policy and strategy in housing, housing and inequality, housing inclusion and the public health agenda. Renewed focus on evidence based housing and health issues. Includes more case studies, ideas for reflective practice, and a greater emphasis on wider living environments and new legislation.

Jill Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health and Housing at Middlesex University, London. She is a Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, a Fellow of both the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health and the Royal Geographical Society, and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing. Her research interests particularly include effective housing and health interventions. Zena Lynch currently teaches at the University of Birmingham on Postgraduate Public and Environmental Health courses. She is a Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, as well as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Why environmental health, public health and housing? Chapter 3 Gathering evidence Chapter 4 Legislation for healthier and safer housing Chapter 5 Working more effectively together Chapter 6 Conclusions References Index