Abstract
Housing quality, stability, and affordability have a direct relationship to socioemotional and physical health. Both city planning and public health have long recognized the role of housing in health, but the complexity of this relationship in regard to infant and maternal health is less understood. Focusing on literature specifically relevant to U.S. metropolitan areas, I conduct a multidisciplinary literature review to understand the influence of housing factors and interventions that impact infant and maternal health. The paper seeks to achieve three primary goals. First, to identify the primary “pathways” by which housing influences infant and maternal health. Second, the review focuses on the role and influence of historical housing discrimination on maternal health outcomes. Third, the review identifies emergent practice-based housing interventions in planning and public health practice to support infant and maternal health. The literature suggests that the impact of housing on infant health is complex, multifaceted, and intergenerational. Historical housing discrimination also directly impacts contemporary infant and maternal health outcomes. Policy interventions to support infant health through housing are just emerging but demonstrate promising outcomes. Structural barriers to housing affordability in the United States will require new resources to foster greater collaboration between the housing and the health sectors.
Highlights
Knowlton School of Architecture, Faculty Affiliate, The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, Abstract: Housing quality, stability, and affordability have a direct relationship to socioemotional and physical health
This review focuses on conditions as ahealth housing has been identified health as a primary social contributing clarity to our understanding of housing and infant/maternal determinant affecting the health status of individuals, leading scholars to conceptualizehealth through an exploration of social the existing literature in the context of U.S metropolitan stable safe housing as a critical determinant for promoting health [16]. regions
Healthy, and affordable housing is critical to maternal health and child development and can be fundamental in providing an intervention to address a key social determinant of health
Summary
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