Damp housing and ill health.

Housing conditions and ill health.

Lack of empirical evidence that living in damp houses has detrimental effects on health may partly be due to inadequate research. A preliminary study was therefore carried out of a random sample of council owned residences in a deprived area of Edinburgh, a respondent from consenting households being interviewed to obtain a profile of the physical and mental health of all adults and children. I...

Damp housing, mould growth, and symptomatic health state.

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between damp and mould growth and symptomatic ill health. DESIGN Cross-sectional study of random sample of households containing children; separate and independent assessments of housing conditions (by surveyor) and health (structured interview by trained researcher). SETTING Subjects' homes (in selected areas of public housing in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Lo...

Poor Housing and Ill Health a Summary of Research Evidence

Damp housing , mould growth , and symptomatic health state Stephen D Platt , Claudia

BrMedj 1989;298:1671-3 Abstract Objective-To measure the safety and efficacy of antenatal treatment with anti-D immunoglobulin. Design-Open study with historical controls. Setting-Multicentre study in 17 hospitals in West Yorkshire. Patients-1238 Rh negative women who delivered Rh positive infants after 34 weeks in their first pregnancy in 1980-1 (group 1) and 2000 similar primigravidas from 19...

Damp housing and asthma: a case-control study.

BACKGROUND Several epidemiological studies have reported a higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms in subjects living in damp housing, but links with specific respiratory diseases such as asthma have not been satisfactorily established. METHODS One hundred and two subjects with physician diagnosed asthma and 196 age and sex matched controls were interviewed; 222 (75%) then agreed to have th...