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Public housing, health, and health behaviors: Is there a connection?

Journal of policy analysis and management, 2007, Vol.26 (4), p.831-860 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 2007 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management ;2007 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management ;Copyright Wiley Periodicals Inc. Autumn 2007 ;ISSN: 0276-8739 ;EISSN: 1520-6688 ;DOI: 10.1002/pam.20288 ;PMID: 17894032 ;CODEN: JPAMD7

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Title:
Public housing, health, and health behaviors: Is there a connection?
Author: Fertig, Angela R. ; Reingold, David A.
Subjects: Affordable housing ; Children ; Clinics ; Community Networks ; Correlation analysis ; Data Analysis ; Domestic Violence ; Family Violence ; Female ; Food ; Health ; Health Behavior ; Health care access ; Health Conditions ; Health outcomes ; Health Status ; Health technology assessment ; Housing ; Housing subsidies ; Humans ; Low Income ; Low income groups ; Male ; Mothers ; Obesity ; Policy analysis ; Poor ; Poverty ; Public health ; Public Housing ; Public policy ; Self reports ; Social housing ; Social Support ; Studies ; United States
Is Part Of: Journal of policy analysis and management, 2007, Vol.26 (4), p.831-860
Description: This paper explores the relationship between public housing, health outcomes, and health behaviors among low-income housing residents. While public housing can be a dangerous and unhealthy environment in which to live, the subsidized rent may free up resources for nutritious food and health care. In addition, public housing may be of higher quality than the available alternatives, it may provide easier access to health clinics willing to serve the poor, and it may link residents to social support networks, which can improve mental health and the ability to access higher-quality grocery stores. To test whether there is a "back-door" health benefit to the public housing program, we analyze data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. We minimize the effects of selection into public housing with controls and instrumental variables estimation and find that the results are somewhat sensitive to the instrumental variable used, and thus, we conclude that we are unable to detect a robust health benefit from public housing for our measures of health. However, we do find some evidence that public housing residency has mixed effects on domestic violence, increases obesity, and worsens mothers' overall health status.
Publisher: Hoboken: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0276-8739
EISSN: 1520-6688
DOI: 10.1002/pam.20288
PMID: 17894032
CODEN: JPAMD7
Source: Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
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Public housing, health, and health behaviors: Is there a connection?

Copyright 2007 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management ;2007 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management ;Copyright Wiley Periodicals Inc. Autumn 2007 ;ISSN: 0276-8739 ;EISSN: 1520-6688 ;DOI: 10.1002/pam.20288 ;PMID: 17894032 ;CODEN: JPAMD7

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