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Isolating a Mental Health Effect of a Change in Housing Affordability
Author(s): Kate Mason, Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, S. V. Subramanian, Anne Kavanagh
Publication Date: 2011
Evidence about the mental health consequences of unaffordable housing is limited. Using data from seven waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey we investigated whether people whose housing became unaffordable experienced a corresponding deterioration in their mental health (measured using SF-36 MCS), over and above other forms of financial stress. We hypothesised that measurable mental health effects of poor...
Association Between Housing Affordability and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Nationally Representative Household Survey in Australia
Author(s): Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Kate Mason, S. V. Subramanian, Anne M. Kavanagh
Publication Date: 2011
Evidence about the mental health consequences of unaffordable housing is limited. The authors investigated whether people whose housing costs were more than 30% of their household income experienced a deterioration in their mental health (using the Short Form 36 Mental Component Summary), over and above other forms of financial stress. They hypothesized that associations would be limited to lower income households as high housing costs would redu...
Access to primary health care among homeless adults in Toronto, Canada: results from the Street Health survey
Author(s): Erika Khandor, Kate Mason, Catharine Chambers, Kate Rossiter, Laura Cowan, Stephen W. Hwang
Publication Date: 2011
Background: Despite experiencing a disproportionate burden of acute and chronic health issues, many homeless people face barriers to primary health care. Most studies on health care access among homeless populations have been conducted in the United States, and relatively few are available from countries such as Canada that have a system of universal health insurance. We investigated access to primary health care among a representative sample of...