To Improve Outcomes, Health Systems Invest In Affordable Housing

Housing strategies that improve Indigenous health outcomes

Setting Housing Standards to Improve Global Health

Developing World Health Organization international guidelines is a highly formal process. Yet the resulting guidelines, which Member States are encouraged, but not required to adopt, are a powerful way of developing rigorous policy and fostering implementation. Using the example of the housing and health guidelines, which are currently being finalised, this paper outlines the process for develo...

Lifetime Affordable Housing in Australia

research by Dr John Morrissey, Prof Ralph Horne, Prof Mike Berry and Mr Trivess Moore conducted at the Centre for Design, RMIT University between February 2008 and October 2010. The research examined the relationship between housing cost and provision and long term sustainability limits, considering socio-economic, spatial and inter-generational dimensions. This briefing reports on the influenc...

Building healthy, affordable housing in North Carolina.

When most people hear the words affordable housing, they picture old-style urban public housing with apartments stacked end-to-end, replete with graffiti and shadylooking characters, unkempt and marked by a general malaise. Nothing seems healthy about it. But today’s affordable housing is different. Successful projects are well-designed, built to a reasonable scale, and have landscaping and ame...

Diagnostics in a digital age: an opportunity to strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes.

Diagnostics play a critical role in clinical decision making, and in disease control and prevention. Rapid point-of-care (POC) tests for infectious diseases can improve access to diagnosis and patient management, but the quality of these tests vary, quality of testing is often not assured and there are few mechanisms to capture test results for surveillance when the testing is so decentralised....