Home Is Where the Harm Is: Inadequate Housing as a Public Health Crisis
- 1 May 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 92 (5) , 733-738
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.92.5.733
Abstract
Overcrowding and poor-quality housing have a direct relationship to poor mental health, developmental delay, heart disease, and even short stature.Keywords
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