caa a22 4500 386395616 CHVBK 20180307112137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047279400017189 doi S0047279400017189 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047279400017189 Housing and Health: A Case Study of Two Areas in West Belfast [Elektronische Daten] The issue of housing and health has received growing attention in recent years. This article reviews why this has been the case and presents the results of the authors' study of housing and health in two areas of West Belfast. A large scale household survey was carried out in Divis Flats and part of the Twinbrook estate, both deprived areas of public sector housing, to compare health and housing conditions. The health of children in Divis is shown to be much worse than the health of children in Twinbrook. Respiratory conditions, diarrhoea, vomiting and psychological distress were particularly common. The health of adults in Divis was also markedly worse than in Twinbrook, and the health of women generally worse than men. The authors conclude that Divis Flats is a contemporary public sector slum and support the case for clearance and rehousing. However, it is argued that the health problems of Divis are one, extreme, manifestation of a wider problem of ill health in low income, ‘mass housing' areas. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Blackman Tim Evason Eileen Melaugh Martin Woods Roberta Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/1(1989-01), 1-26 0047-2794 18:1<1 1989 18 JSP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400017189 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400017189 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Blackman Tim NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Evason Eileen NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Melaugh Martin NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Woods Roberta NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/1(1989-01), 1-26 0047-2794 18:1<1 1989 18 JSP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge