Housing deprivation and health status: evidence from Spain

Navarro, Carolina; Cañón, Luis Ayala; Labeaga, José M.

doi:10.1007/s00181-009-0279-5

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“…Unlike Navarro et al . (), who found overcrowding to be significant, albeit with a small magnitude (OR = 1.02), our results reflect the findings of Pevalin et al . () that overcrowding does not have a significant effect on health.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…However, we were able to corroborate the finding by Navarro et al . () that an inability to keep the dwelling warm and structural dwelling problems significantly deteriorate health, as well as the result of Pevalin et al . () that health problems increase with accumulated housing problems.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relationship between health and the individual dwelling units physical problems has been studied using observational data by Pevalin et al (2008) in the United Kingdom and Navarro et al (2010) in Spain. Pevalin et al (2008) use seven waves (1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), with first differencing to control for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity.…”

Section: Effects Of the Dwelling Unitmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Housing and Health

Angel

Bittschi

2017

Review of Income and Wealth

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Deprived housing is recognized as a source of poor health, but there is still little evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. While existing literature identifies neighborhood effects and the individual dwelling as factors which affect health, it does not offer a joint examination of these factors. Moreover, endogeneity is a concern in analyses of both problems. Thus far, studies addressing endogeneity have done so through experimental design or instrumental variables. The first approach suffers from problems of external validity and the latter from the lack of reliable instruments. We therefore adopt an alternative strategy which considers both sources of endogeneity in order to identify the effects of housing on health by estimating fixed‐effect models. We reveal how housing problems affect health depending on living conditions and socioeconomic status. Our results therefore indicate that living in poor housing is an important short‐term socioeconomic determinant that directly affects health.

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Section: Effects Of the Dwelling Unitmentioning

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Housing and Health

Angel

Bittschi

2017

Review of Income and Wealth

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“…Undoubtedly, this may have an impact on the population's health and/or the equity and efficiency of healthcare systems. Several authors provide evidence on the relationship among unemployment rates, business cycle conditions or housing conditions on health variables in the short-run [16,17,18]. Budget cuts have an impact on dependent people, for example and in Spain, demand for private long-term care insurance has grown in recent years and this can be attributed to budget cuts affecting the implementation of System of Autonomy and Attention to Dependent People [19].…”

Section: Healthcare and The Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Big Data and Health Economics: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks

Bodas-Sagi¹,

Labeaga²

2018

IJIMAI

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Big Data offers opportunities in many fields. Healthcare is not an exception. In this paper we summarize the possibilities of Big Data and Big Data technologies to offer useful information to policy makers. In a world with tight public budgets and ageing populations we feel necessary to save costs in any production process. The use of outcomes from Big Data could be in the future a way to improve decisions at a lower cost than today. In addition to list the advantages of properly using data and technologies from Big Data, we also show some challenges and risks that analysts could face. We also present an hypothetical example of the use of administrative records with health information both for diagnoses and patients.

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“…For example, Marsh et al (2000), Pevalin et al (2008) or Navarro et al (2010) find that living in inadequate housing conditions has a negative effect on health. Goux and Maurin (2005) show how living in an overcrowded household can be detrimental to children's educational performance and Barnes et al (2011) that children living for a long time in bad housing conditions are more likely to be confronted to poor outcomes in terms of health or economic well-being.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%