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      Exploring the relationship between housing concerns, mental health and wellbeing: a qualitative study of social housing tenants

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          Abstract

          Background

          The rising prevalence of mental health problems is a growing public health issue. Poor mental health is not equally distributed across social groups and is associated with poverty and insecure housing. An evaluation of a social housing intervention provided an opportunity to explore the connections between housing and wider determinants of health and wellbeing.

          Methods

          We undertook 44 interviews with social housing tenants over a two-year period to explore their views on housing, health and wellbeing.

          Results

          Poor mental health was common. The results suggest that perceptions of housing quality, service responsiveness, community safety, benefit changes and low income all have a detrimental effect on tenants’ mental health.

          Conclusions

          Social housing providers who wish to have a positive impact on the mental health of their tenants need to consider how to best support or mitigate the impact of these stresses. Addressing traditional housing officer functions such as reporting or monitoring home repairs alongside holistic support remains an important area where social housing departments can have substantial health impact. Tackling the complex nature of mental health requires a joined up approach between housing and a number of services.

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            Neighbourhood life and social capital: the implications for health.

            Social capital has been linked to health outcomes, though there are some inconsistencies in the research and the link is dependent on the measures of social capital and health used. In this paper, we argue that social capital is multifaceted and its relationship with health is complex. We explore the relationship between a number of elements of neighbourhood life and neighbourhood-based social capital, and health, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The paper reports on a study of the Western suburbs of Adelaide and the analysis of 2400 questionnaires and 40 in-depth interviews. A partial least-square path analysis was undertaken with the questionnaire data. It considered the impact of perceptions of the physical environment, neighbourhood connections, neighbourhood trust, reciprocity, perceived safety and local civic action, and a number of demographic variables, on physical and mental health as measured by the SF-12. Of the neighbourhood-related variables, only perceived neighbourhood safety was related to physical health, with neighbourhood safety and neighbourhood connections related to mental health. Of the demographic variables, higher-income level and educational achievement were related to better physical and mental health. In addition, physical health was lower and mental health higher within older age groups. The inter-relationships between the neighbourhood variables and demographic differences in experience of neighbourhood were also examined. The thematic analysis of the interviews linked a number of social aspects of neighbourhood, the physical neighbourhood environment, perceptions of safety, civic activities and availability of local services, to health outcomes. The paper concludes that there is a need for more complex measures of social capital and that socio-economic factors are of relatively greater importance in determining health.
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                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Role: Research Associate
                Role: Research Fellow
                Role: Research Associate
                Role: Professor
                Role: Professor
                Journal
                J Public Health (Oxf)
                J Public Health (Oxf)
                pubmed
                Journal of Public Health (Oxford, England)
                Oxford University Press
                1741-3842
                1741-3850
                August 2020
                11 July 2019
                11 July 2019
                : 42
                : 3
                : e231-e238
                Affiliations
                [1 ] The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) , The University of Sheffield, Regent Court, Regent Street, Sheffield, UK
                [2 ] Centre for Regional Economic Social Research (CRESR) , Sheffield Hallam University, 54 Howard St, Sheffield, UK
                Author notes
                Address correspondence to Eleanor Holding, E-mail: e.holding@ 123456sheffield.ac.uk
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4368-1462
                Article
                fdz076
                10.1093/pubmed/fdz076
                7435210
                31294793
                74319cca-5bf2-4a0d-9ae5-5bb90acd8ae4
                © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health.

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 30 October 2018
                : 06 June 2019
                : 20 June 2019
                Page count
                Pages: 8
                Funding
                Funded by: NIHR School for Public Health Research, DOI 10.13039/501100012349;
                Categories
                AcademicSubjects/MED00860
                Original Article

                Public health
                housing,social housing,mental health
                Public health
                housing, social housing, mental health

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