School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Sep 16;21(9):1217. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21091217.
Adequate housing is a social determinant of health and well-being, providing stability from which people can engage in important life activities, including self-care and productivity. Social housing is a system-level intervention that aims to provide affordable housing to people vulnerable to experiencing social and economic marginalisation. Given the importance of employment to social-economic status and overall health and well-being, we sought to better understand the available knowledge and research related to employment and living in a social housing environment. We used scoping review methodology to explore peer-reviewed research published between 2012-2022 regarding social housing and employment, identifying 29 relevant articles. Using the Psychology of Working Theory and neighbourhood effects as interpretive theoretical frameworks, we analysed the extracted data. Overall, the results affirmed that social housing residents have low employment rates conceptualised as related to the complex interplay of a range of personal and environmental factors. Most published literature was quantitative and originated from the United States. Policy and research implications are discussed, including the need for more multifaceted, person-centred interventions that support employment and ultimately promote health and quality of life for social housing residents.
住房是健康和福祉的社会决定因素，为人们提供稳定的居住环境，使他们能够从事重要的生活活动，包括自我护理和生产。社会住房是一种系统层面的干预措施，旨在为那些容易受到社会和经济边缘化影响的人提供负担得起的住房。鉴于就业对社会经济地位以及整体健康和福祉的重要性，我们试图更好地了解与社会住房环境中的就业相关的现有知识和研究。我们使用范围综述方法来探索 2012 年至 2022 年间发表的关于社会住房和就业的同行评议研究，确定了 29 篇相关文章。我们使用工作心理学理论和邻里效应作为解释性理论框架，对提取的数据进行了分析。总的来说，研究结果证实，社会住房居民的就业率较低，这与一系列个人和环境因素的复杂相互作用有关。大多数已发表的文献都是定量的，并且来自美国。讨论了政策和研究的影响，包括需要更多多方面的、以人为本的干预措施，以支持就业，并最终促进社会住房居民的健康和生活质量。
