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Public health and social housing: a natural alliance
- Author:
- JOHNSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 14(1), 2011, pp.6-14.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In November 2010, the UK Coalition Government unveiled its White Paper on the future course of the new national public health services. The White Paper offers significant advances in the promotion of public health, and especially the role of local government in brokering local partnerships. The aim of this paper is to summarise and comment on evolving UK policy in public health and social housing, using mental health is as an example. It especially aims to outline the gaps in conventional health research approaches that have tended to obscure the evidence and potential in collaborative working. The paper describes how the evidence base relating to public health policy remains scattered across different disciplines and their various disparate communication channels. Any new public health strategy focussed on health inequalities needs to recognise the role that social housing already plays in supporting concentrations of the more vulnerable. Better recognition of the everyday social and mental health problems that social housing staff deal with illustrates the central role of housing management as the defining factor in social housing, and the potential for partnerships with public health.