Galli, Diana;
Nix, Emily;
Altamirano, Hector;
(2020)
«Healthy» Housing for Children Living in Slums: A new assessment tool to score the impact of house environment on children’s health.
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Proceedings of the 10th Masters Conference: People and Buildings.
nceub – Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings: Online.
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Abstract
High child mortality rate is associated with extreme poverty and insufficient services, like in slums. To guarantee social equality since childhood, governments should plan improvements in living conditions, starting from interventions on existing housing. Assessing the healthiness of a house for children’s health can help in prioritizing interventions. This study proposes a multi-factor assessment tool of house environment that ranks dwellings based on the risk that children (0-5 y/o) living in slums have on contracting five diseases with the highest mortality rate. The ranking scale associates dwelling and environmental factors with selected diseases through ORs. Final scores are standardized through coefficients, customizing results for the specific considered location. The assessment tool was tested on a database from slum’s dwellings located in Delhi (India). Results showed usability and clear interpretation of final scores. With further literature, a more accurate and improvement to the tool could be possible.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | «Healthy» Housing for Children Living in Slums: A new assessment tool to score the impact of house environment on children’s health |
| Event: | NCEUB Conferences, MC2020 Masters Conference People and Buildings, UK, 18 Dec 2020 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | House environment, Health, Slums, Child mortality, Assessment tool |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10163108 |
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