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Housing as Health Capital: How Health Trajectories and Housing Paths Are Linked
Author(s) -
Smith Susan J.,
Easterlow Donna,
Munro Moira,
Turner Katrina M.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/1540-4560.00075
Subject(s) - social capital , psychological resilience , perspective (graphical) , capital (architecture) , inequality , business , sociology , psychology , social psychology , geography , computer science , social science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology , artificial intelligence
This article explores the relationships between housing and health inequalities. It locates housing within a network of health resources that can either promote well‐being or increase susceptibility to disease. Housing thereby contributes to the accumulation, or depletion, of the health capital of individuals and communities. Qualitative interviews in three British regions help specify the links between health capital, on the one hand, and the network of resources, environments, events, institutions, and social relations comprising the housing system, on the other. The findings show why, from a health capital/health‐resources‐network perspective, a segment of the housing system (owner‐occupation) that generally appears therapeutic can have the opposite effect for people whose resilience is low or whose health is in decline .