School of Public Service, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea.
Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep 29;17(19):7125. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17197125.
Identifying the impact of housing instability on the health status of renters with relatively high economic difficulties is important for the improvement of renters' quality of life and their social security. Accordingly, this study adopted a panel data regression approach to examine the associations between residential instability and perceived health status-including physical and mental health-using 14 waves (2006-2019) of longitudinal data collected by the Korean Welfare Panel Study. The results showed that residential instability significantly affected perceived health status, and renters who experienced residential instability perceived worse health status and had more severe depression than those who did not experience residential instability. Moreover, failure to meet the minimum housing standard worsened depression in renters. Despite assistance benefits from the government, permanent rental housing and the national basic living security were also factors that worsened depression. Dissatisfaction with one's residential environment and social relationships were also associated with increased depression. We recommend that the overall quality of housing welfare services, including a focus on the mental health of low-income renters, be improved by expanding the range of services, increasing the number of professional housing welfare workers, and supplying community facilities for increasing residential and social relationship satisfactions.
确定住房不稳定对经济困难程度相对较高的租房者健康状况的影响，对于提高租房者的生活质量和社会保障水平至关重要。因此，本研究采用面板数据回归方法，利用韩国福利面板研究在 2006 年至 2019 年期间收集的 14 波纵向数据，检验了住房不稳定与感知健康状况（包括身心健康）之间的关联。结果表明，住房不稳定对感知健康状况有显著影响，经历过住房不稳定的租房者比没有经历过住房不稳定的租房者感知到的健康状况更差，抑郁程度更严重。此外，无法满足最低住房标准会使租房者的抑郁状况恶化。尽管政府提供了援助福利，但永久性租赁住房和国家基本生活保障也是加重抑郁的因素。对居住环境和社会关系的不满也与抑郁程度的增加有关。我们建议通过扩大服务范围、增加专业住房福利工作者数量以及供应社区设施来提高住房福利服务的整体质量，以提高住房和社会关系满意度，从而关注低收入租房者的心理健康。
