Setting Housing Standards to Improve Global Health
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Developing World Health Organization international guidelines is a highly formal process. Yet the resulting guidelines, which Member States are encouraged, but not required to adopt, are a powerful way of developing rigorous policy and fostering implementation. Using the example of the housing and health guidelines, which are currently being finalised, this paper outlines the process for developing WHO guidelines. This includes: forming a Guidelines Review Group that represents all regions of the world, and ensures gender balance and technical expertise; identifying key health outcomes of interest; commissioning systematic reviews of the evidence; assessing the evidence; and formulating recommendations. The strength of each recommendation is assessed based on the quality of the evidence, along with consideration of issues such as equity, acceptability, and feasibility of the implementation of the recommendation. The proposed housing guidelines will address: cold and hot indoor temperatures, home injuries, household crowding, accessibility and access to active travel infrastructure.
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Despite evidence on aspects of frameworks, the overall effectiveness of guidelines, building codes, and national regulations in improving health and well-being is not clearly established and remains an important research area.
“Despite evidence on aspects of frameworks, the overall effectiveness of guidelines (69), building codes, and national regulations in improving health and well-being is not clearly established and remains an important research area (170).”
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- Authors
- Howden-Chapman, P., Roebbel, N., & Chisholm, E.
- Affiliations
- He Kainga Oranga, Housing and Health Programme, University of Otago, Wellington 6242, New Zealand
- World Health Organization (CH)
- University of Otago (NZ)
- ORCID
- Chisholm, Elinor
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2017-12-09
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1542
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5750960
- OpenAlex
- W2771669125
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 3.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- World Health Organization
- University of Otago
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Kindai University
- Kanazawa University
- University of Warwick
- Queen's University Belfast
- Massey University
- Queensland University of Technology
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
- Queen's University
- Ministère des Affaires Sociales et de la Santé
- Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos
- Medical Research Council
- Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Keywords
- WHO guidelines, housing and health, guideline development, systematic reviews, evidence evaluation, strength of recommendation, indoor temperature, home injuries, household crowding, active travel infrastructure, global health policy
- MeSH terms
- Housing, Humans, Global Health, World Health Organization, Guidelines as Topic
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