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Public Health Implications of Housing Assignment
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Public Health Implications of Housing Assignment
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PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OFHOUSING
Public health and safety implications of housing and buildingsHousing is considered to be one of those traditional areas which is preferred forimproving public health. Though, it is not considered to be that important for several factorsrelated with healthy living and also wellbeing. Home is regarded to be an essential need due topsychosocial reasons and also for protection provided by it from several external elements. Butapart from serving various benefits, many hazards can arise with regard to physical, biological aswell as chemical factors. It is very important to understand the relation between health andhousing and is known to be multi-faceted (Park and Yu, 2016). A healthy housing is a necessary aspect that has a sound structure; free from any kind of hazard.It must deliver adequate facilities for sleeping, preparation of food and personal living, shouldoffer an atmosphere that promotes comfortable relaxation and a place for privacy. LocalEnvironment is regarded to be essential for determination of many factors such as access to allfacilities and services, protection from crime and promotion of social interaction.Poor as well as unsafe housing can create many problems that can be related to mentalhealth and well-being. Housing is regarded to be a fundamental aspect to health and creates anopportunity for harnessing several resources, energies and talents from social care, health andother housing sectors for creating homes which can promote healthy environment at every stageof a life course. It has been identified that there are several housing hazards that has caused severaladverse impacts in societies such as death and other life threatening risk. These hazards and theiraffection are discussed as below: Cold- It has been observed that excess death and morbidity occurs in winters. There aresome evidences which proved that an individual is more prone to cold at home that hasinadequate insulation or home heating. It measures in improving efficiency of domestic energyand related affordability should be taken for minimising this effect.Heat- The relation between implied characteristics for decreasing effect of home as wellas risk of mortality due to heat is generally not accurately adopted and defined respectively.Many houses have such kind of dwelling which have high solar gain due to this it tends todevelop high indoor temperature that create greater risk to health.
Falls- Accidents due to fall from any wall or ceiling that mostly occurs at home andconsidered to have high proportion of chances. Mostly children and old individuals are moreprone to these mishaps as they spend most of their time at home. There are several injuries whichhave been occurred due to this. It is mostly due to poor materials that are used for construction tomake the house ceiling and other parts having risk of falling down.Damps and Moulds- It is known to be the worst for those dwellings which areovercrowded. Interpreting epidemiological evidences related to health effects that are generatedby damps and moulds which are more complexed. These are generally occupied by thosefamilies who have low socio- economic status.For taking care of every aspect related to housing, the Building Code of Australia (BCA)is considered as a guideline. It is known as a series which comprises of technical provisions fordesigning and constructing several buildings and other kinds of structures. The BCA tends toaddress several matters such as structural adequacy, access and egress, resistance from fire,equipment as well as services, sustainability, energy efficiency and provision for many amenitiesand health occupants (Carman and McGladrey, 2018). Goal of this authority is to provide crucial standards which are relevant to safety,amenity, health and sustainability of every object that has to be used for construction process.The functionality of BCA includes adoption of assessing methods which can be used fordetermination or establishment of performance solutions that must comply with appropriaterequirements for effective performance. There are certain housing provisions that are compulsoryto be granted for proceeding towards any kind of construction. It has been published under 2volumes; one tends to deal with matters related to Class 2 to 9 buildings and others are related to1 and 10 structures. With the use of 1.2.2. clause of BCA Volume two, verification method can be used forassessing the solution for meeting performance requirement according to the opinion of severalexperts. Under the clauses of A-0.6 and A-1.0.6 of Building Code of Australia of Volume 1 and2 respectively, it shows that goals on BCA does form a part of regulations related to developingbuildings and can be used as a help for interpretation for effective construction. For evaluating performance orientated Building regulations, one has to follow clauseFP1.4 of Volume 1. which says that every kind of roof should prevent entry of water that can
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