Overview and history
There is a growing number of new families and an increasing population in the United States which have combined to create a pressing demand for additional housing that must adapt to healthy living. Obviously, a person housing conditions can significantly affect their health. According to CDC (2006) “Nationwide there are more than 6 million substandard housing units” (p. 1). The Healthy Homes Program aims to combat multiple childhood issues, injuries, and diseases in the home. This Initiative takes a holistic approach to these activities by focusing on housing-related hazards instead of addressing one single hazard at a time. The HHI builds on the HUD 's useful Lead Hazard Control programs to broaden its efforts to address …show more content…
Furthermore, this can build a capacity and understanding among environmental health, public health, and housing professionals, along with others who work hands-on in the community. If done properly, this will help to develop and manage useful and effective healthy homes programs.
Another intention of the HHI is to develop, promote, and implement a multitude of activities at each level (federal, state, tribe, etc.) to address the problem of the unsafe and unhealthy housing through comprehensive prevention programs along with surveillance and research in order to find out what is effective. Therefore, there is a major need to develop guidelines to reduce, access, and get rid of health and safety risks correctly. The promotion of research to diagnose the causal relationship between substandard housing and adverse health effects is crucial for continuing the creation of new ideas in effective programs to combat the issues at …show more content…
Although the larger community around a house is generally the place from which people leave to attend work, study, play and interact with others; and happens to be the place to which they return from these activities. Important community factors including ways in which people behave and communicate to each other, the way the community is built and designed, and the state of the environment, can contribute critically to healthy homes- which isn’t included in many of the housing manuals or information about a “healthy house”. Health-promoting features of the community could include sidewalks, bicycle trails, parks and play space, more available transit, and nearby destinations such as schools, stores, and workplaces. Also, the ways people behave and relate to each other are also essential to “good” health.
It would be helpful to have a further emphasis on the importance of ensuring the public’s availability of healthy, safe, affordable, accessible, and environmentally friendly homes for the U.S. population. In addition, housing-related health and safety issues for which help are available, as well as areas where further research and evaluation are needed should be more widely
There is a growing number of new families and an increasing population in the United States which have combined to create a pressing demand for additional housing that must adapt to healthy living. Obviously, a person housing conditions can significantly affect their health. According to CDC (2006) “Nationwide there are more than 6 million substandard housing units” (p. 1). The Healthy Homes Program aims to combat multiple childhood issues, injuries, and diseases in the home. This Initiative takes a holistic approach to these activities by focusing on housing-related hazards instead of addressing one single hazard at a time. The HHI builds on the HUD 's useful Lead Hazard Control programs to broaden its efforts to address …show more content…
Furthermore, this can build a capacity and understanding among environmental health, public health, and housing professionals, along with others who work hands-on in the community. If done properly, this will help to develop and manage useful and effective healthy homes programs.
Another intention of the HHI is to develop, promote, and implement a multitude of activities at each level (federal, state, tribe, etc.) to address the problem of the unsafe and unhealthy housing through comprehensive prevention programs along with surveillance and research in order to find out what is effective. Therefore, there is a major need to develop guidelines to reduce, access, and get rid of health and safety risks correctly. The promotion of research to diagnose the causal relationship between substandard housing and adverse health effects is crucial for continuing the creation of new ideas in effective programs to combat the issues at …show more content…
Although the larger community around a house is generally the place from which people leave to attend work, study, play and interact with others; and happens to be the place to which they return from these activities. Important community factors including ways in which people behave and communicate to each other, the way the community is built and designed, and the state of the environment, can contribute critically to healthy homes- which isn’t included in many of the housing manuals or information about a “healthy house”. Health-promoting features of the community could include sidewalks, bicycle trails, parks and play space, more available transit, and nearby destinations such as schools, stores, and workplaces. Also, the ways people behave and relate to each other are also essential to “good” health.
It would be helpful to have a further emphasis on the importance of ensuring the public’s availability of healthy, safe, affordable, accessible, and environmentally friendly homes for the U.S. population. In addition, housing-related health and safety issues for which help are available, as well as areas where further research and evaluation are needed should be more widely