Essen J, Fogelman K, Head J
Child Care Health Dev. 1978 Nov-Dec;4(6):357-69. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1978.tb00095.x.
The housing conditions of children in the National Child Development Study were related to their health and their height at the age of 16. Although children in crowded homes missed more school for medical reasons, the only illness they reported more often than children in better conditions was bronchitis. Those with inadequate amenities did not miss more school, although they also reported more bronchitis, as well as bilious attacks. Children in council houses were shorter than those in owner-occupied homes, but the only difference in height related to the conditions of the home was that crowded boys were slightly shorter than those who were not crowded. There was therefore little evidence of an association between poor housing and either ill-health or retarded growth among Britain's 16-year-olds in the 1970s, and this was still the case for children who had spent longer periods of their childhood in unsatisfactory housing.
全国儿童发展研究中儿童的居住条件与他们16岁时的健康状况和身高有关。尽管居住在拥挤家庭中的儿童因医疗原因缺课更多，但他们比居住条件较好的儿童报告更频繁的唯一疾病是支气管炎。设施不足的儿童缺课并不更多，尽管他们也报告了更多的支气管炎以及胆汁发作。住在市政公房的儿童比住在自有住房的儿童矮，但与家庭条件相关的身高唯一差异是，拥挤家庭中的男孩比不拥挤家庭中的男孩略矮。因此，几乎没有证据表明20世纪70年代英国16岁青少年的住房条件差与健康不佳或生长发育迟缓之间存在关联，对于童年时期较长时间居住在不理想住房中的儿童来说，情况仍然如此。
