The Residential Context of Health

Psychological and social processes that connect health with housing come into focus in this collection of original papers. Eminent European and North American scholars provide conceptual and analytical tools useful for further enhancing our understanding of the relations among housing, residence, and health. Features articles by eminent European and North American scholars, which investigate the psychological and social processes that connect health with housing. Explores how social ecological factors set the boundaries for the activities individuals engage in regarding their health and housing. Provides conceptual and analytical tools to further enhance understanding of the relationships between housing, residence, and health.

Terry Hartig is an Associate Professor of Psychology with the Institute for Housing and Urban Research and the Department of Psychology of Uppsala University. He completed graduate training in social ecology at the University of California at Irvine and postdoctoral training in social epidemiology at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on health values of nature experience, restorative environments, health in relation to residence, and the social ecology of stress and restoration.

Roderick J. Lawrence is Professor in the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Geneva, where he works in the Centre for Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences. In 1994 he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization’s European Centre for Environment and Health. In 1999 he was nominated Chair of the Evaluation Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization’s Healthy Cities Project for the European Region. In 2001 he was nominated to the WHO European Taskforce on Housing and Health.

The Residential Context of Health

Terry Hartig

Roderick J. Lawrence

Introduction: The Residential Context of Health

455

(20)

Terry Hartig

Roderick J. Lawrence

EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF OUTCOMES AND PROCESSES

Housing and Mental Health: A Review of the Evidence and a Methodological and Conceptual Critique

475

(26)

Gary W. Evans

Nancy M. Wells

Annie Moch

OWNING VERSUS RENTING--HEALTH AND HOUSING TENURE

Housing as Health Capital: How Health Trajectories and Housing Paths Are Linked

501

(26)

Susan J. Smith

Donna Easterlow

Moira Munro

Katrina M. Turner

Residents and Residence: Factors Predicting the Health Disadvantage of Social Renters Compared to Owner-Occupiers

527

(20)

Rosemary Hiscock

Sally Macintyre

Ade Kearns

Anne Ellaway

RESIDENCE, POVERTY, AND HEALTH

Double Indemnity or Double Delight? The Health Consequences of Shared Housing and ``Doubling Up''

547

(22)

Sherry Ahrentzen

Poverty, Housing Niches, and Health in the United States

569

(22)

Susan Saegert

Gary W. Evans

RESIDENTIAL ACTIVITIES, STRESS, AND HEALTH

Focus on Home: What Time-Use Data Can Tell About Caregiving to Adults

591

(20)

William Michelson

Lorne Tepperman

Residence in the Social Ecology of Stress and Restoration

611

(26)

Terry Hartig

Gunn Johansson

Camilla Kylin

CONCLUDING COMMENT

Comment: Housing Policy and Health

637

(14)

Ralph Catalano

Eric Kessell

2002 SPSSI PRESIDENTIAL AWARD ADDRESS

Introduction to Geoff Maruyama's Presidential Address, June 29, 2002

651

(2)

Jennifer Crocker

Disparities in Educational Opportunities and Outcomes: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?

653

Geoffrey Maruyama

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