Morrison, D.

Petticrew, M.

Thomson, H.

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      Thomson, H. and Petticrew, M. and Morrison, D. (2007) Better homes, better neighbourhoods. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 61(3):pp. 214-214.        http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/4295/  Deposited on: 12 June 2008   Glasgow ePrints Service http://eprints.gla.ac.uk   Better homes, better neighbourhoods Hilary Thomson1, Mark Petticrew1, David Morrison2  1 MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK 2 Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow, Glasgow, UK  Correspondence to: Correspondence to:  H Thomson  MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, UK; hilary@msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk  Interventions to improve housing are often part of broader area-regeneration activities. A programme of housing-led regeneration in a post-industrial village in West Dunbartonshire, at the foot of Loch Lomond in Scotland, involved housing association tenants moving from ex-council flats reported to have damp problems (fig 1 ), to newly built houses with private gardens (fig 2 ). Not only was the fabric of the new houses better, but also the neighbourhood regeneration involved general environmental improvements. These included aesthetic improvements, provision of children’s play areas and better street design. Levels of housing density were reduced by housing people in houses rather than in flats, and although the flats were not overcrowded, there was a small but statistically significant reduction in house occupancy (persons per room) when residents moved to their new house. A paper in this issue of JECH reports the findings of a prospective controlled study that evaluated the effects on health 1 year after residents moved to a new house: no marked health effects were reported.1   Figure 1  Ex-council flats with reported damp problems      Figure 2  Newly built houses with private gardens and wider environmental improvements   

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