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Healthy & safe homes [electronic resource] : research, practice, & policy / editors, Rebecca L. Morley, Angela D. Mickalide, and Karin A. Mack ; [foreword by Georges C. Benjamin].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Housing and health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : American Public Health Association, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Healthy and Safe Homes: Research, Practice, and Policy provides practical tools and information to make the connection between health and housing conditions relatable to everyone. This book brings together perspectives of noted scientists, public health experts, housing advocates, and policy leaders to fully explain the problem of substandard housing that plagues our nation and offers holistic, strategic, and long-term solutions to fix it.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; About the Authors; 1. Introduction: A Systems Science Approach to Promoting Healthy Homes; 2. Principles of Healthy Housing: Dry, Ventilated, Contaminant-Free, Pest-Free, Clean, Maintained; 3. Principles of Healthy Housing: Safe; 4. Reducing Health Disparity through Healthy Housing; 5. Healthy Homes: The Role of Health Care Professionals; 6. The Healthy Housing Workforce: Development and Scope of Practice; 7. Cooperative Extension Agencies and Community Health Education; 8. Green Building and the Code; 9. Fire Prevention Personnel
- 10. Weatherization and Opportunities to Improve Health Conditions in HomesIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-87553-251-9
- OCLC:
- 754713865
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