The impact of social housing on mental health: longitudinal analyses using marginal structural models and machine learning-generated weights.

Journal: International journal of epidemiology
Published Date: Oct 1, 2018

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Social housing may provide an affordable and secure residential environment, but has also been associated with stigma, poor housing conditions and locational disadvantage. We examined the cumulative effect of additional years, and tenure security (number of transitions in/out), of social housing on mental health in a large cohort of lower-income Australians.

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  • Rebecca Bentley
    Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Emma Baker
    Healthy Cities Research Group, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
  • Koen Simons
    Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Julie A Simpson
    Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Tony Blakely
    Health Inequalities Research Programme, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.

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