Deeming Simon, Lawrence Kerryn, Standen Jeffrey C
Hunter Medical Research Institute, Lot 1, Kookaburra Crescent, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia.
School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.
Heliyon. 2024 Jul 9;10(14):e34282. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34282. eCollection 2024 Jul 30.
Considerable evidence exists regarding the role housing plays in the determination of health and well-being outcomes. Despite the scale of health concerns arising from housing considerations, there are very few economic analyses of housing programs that seek to improve health outcomes by addressing the physical infrastructure of the living environment. The NSW (HfH) program is an environmental health initiative funded and administered by NSW Health, that addresses health-related hardware in residential accommodation to ensure the home environment supports healthy living practices to ultimately improve health outcomes for residents. This study reviews the economic methods that have been applied to comparable programs and identifies relevant costs and benefits that should be addressed. Founded on the requirement from decision makers, and the insights from the review, the paper outlines a protocol for a cost-benefit analysis that accounts for the disparate health, social, economic and intangible benefits generated from the HfH program and the resources utilised to realise these outcomes.
关于住房在决定健康和幸福结果方面所起的作用，已有大量证据。尽管出于住房考虑而引发的健康问题规模庞大，但旨在通过解决居住环境的物理基础设施来改善健康结果的住房项目的经济分析却非常少。新南威尔士州的“健康住房”（HfH）项目是一项由新南威尔士州卫生部资助和管理的环境卫生倡议，该项目致力于解决住宅中的健康相关硬件问题，以确保家庭环境支持健康的生活方式，最终改善居民的健康结果。本研究回顾了应用于类似项目的经济方法，并确定了应考虑的相关成本和收益。基于决策者的要求以及审查得出的见解，本文概述了一个成本效益分析方案，该方案考虑了“健康住房”项目产生的不同的健康、社会、经济和无形效益以及为实现这些结果所使用的资源。
