Data on housing and health – the gaps, the challenges and the opportunities

Housing is known to be one of the non-medical factors that significantly influences someone’s wellbeing, including through research. But the pool of data on the precise relationship between someone’s home and their health is limited, both at the level of individual housing providers and at the national level.

This Inside Housing webinar – run in association with Aico as part of the Healthy Homes campaign – will consider the gaps, challenges and opportunities in data on housing and health. Learners will explore what data informs current knowledge on how someone’s home affects their wellbeing; the limitations of current data; and where lacking data currently makes it difficult to draw confident conclusions.

Learning objectives

By the end of the webinar, those attending will:

• Be able to describe what is currently known about the relationship between housing and health
• Detail which data sources currently inform what we know, and how researchers have used these sources – including describing recent papers on the relationship between poor quality housing and depressive symptoms and housing quality indicators and depression in women
• Describe the limitations of the data available at present
• Explain which data is simply not available, and detail how this affects our knowledge of the relationship between housing and health
• Give a sense of how the availability of data might be increased, including descriptions of which information it might make most sense to prioritise in the first instance
• Describe what role social landlords could play in expanding availability of data, and the challenges that may be faced in doing so

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This event is CPD certified.

*Please be aware that you will have to watch the full webinar (45 minutes) to receive a CPD certificate