The relationships between housing quality and occupant health in Uganda |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics and School of International Studies, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211, USA;2. Department of Economics, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211, USA;3. Government of Uganda, Kampala, Uganda;1. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 1010, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA;2. Laboratory Specialists, Inc., Westlake, OH, USA;3. Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA;1. Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children''s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;2. Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy, and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Children''s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;3. Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico;1. Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark;2. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States;3. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States;4. Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States;5. Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States;6. General Internal Medicine Section, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States;7. Center of Diagnostic Imaging, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark;1. Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA;2. Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA;3. Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA |
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| Abstract: | The Government of Uganda created in 2010 a strategic plan to invest in public health as part of its broader national development goals. The health plan recognizes housing and urbanization as a determinant of health, but has not yet formulated policy to address the relationship. This study can help guide health policy development as it relates to housing. It estimates relationships between housing quality and occupant health using “count outcome” regression models. An economic model of optimal household labor allocation in poor countries provides the foundation for the regression modeling. The data used to estimate the regressions are a stratified random sample of 7096 households surveyed in the 2005–06 Uganda National Household Survey. They provide, among other things, detailed information on physical housing attributes as well as the health status of its occupants. Consistent with the economic model and other empirical work, the results show that exposure to burning of biomass for cooking has the largest adverse health effect. Different definitions of illness yield results consistent with expectations, and a separate specification test suggests that the findings are reasonably robust. |
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