Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 22;19(5):2497. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19052497.
Research investigating the link between housing and health often produces mixed results. It does not always prove that good housing improves health. The results suggest a complex set of factors play a role, and the findings are sometimes contradictory. Two ways of addressing these concerns are longitudinal research, where the relationship between housing and health is measured in the short and medium terms, and a focus on children. We use the children's housing and health data from the five waves of the National Income and Distribution Survey (NIDS) survey in South Africa, 2008 to 2017. We investigate the effect that continued living in informal housing over the five waves has had on these children's health. Our results show a statistically significant relationship between prolonged residence in poor housing and poor health outcomes for some health indicators. The results call for a closer understanding of health issues in housing policy in South Africa.
研究住房与健康之间的关系常常得出的结果并不一致。它并不总是能证明良好的住房可以改善健康状况。研究结果表明，有一系列复杂的因素在起作用，而且调查结果有时相互矛盾。解决这些问题的两种方法是纵向研究，即短期和中期内测量住房和健康之间的关系，以及关注儿童。我们使用了南非 2008 年至 2017 年五次全国收入和分配调查（NIDS）的儿童住房和健康数据。我们调查了在这五次调查中持续居住在非正式住房对这些儿童健康的影响。我们的研究结果表明，在一些健康指标方面，长期居住在条件较差的住房与较差的健康结果之间存在统计学上显著的关系。这些结果要求我们更深入地了解南非住房政策中的健康问题。
