Healthy Housing

Housing should provide a safe and healthy environment for its inhabitants. Many technical, social, planning and policy factors relating to housing may affect physical and mental health and social wellbeing. These factors can be expressed in terms of basic human requirements which can, accordingly, be incorporated into housing standards, policies and goals of attainment relevant to an individual country's needs, resources and priorities. No universal interpretation of health housing is possible, but typical requirments, as outlined in this volume, can form the necessary basis. The objective of this book is to encourage administrations to formulate a sound housing policy to solve basic health-related housing problems and to meet WHO's objective of "healthful housing" for all by the year 2000.