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The document discusses the relationship between housing and health, emphasizing the importance of environmental health factors that affect human well-being. It outlines the components of environmental health, including safe water, sewage treatment, and proper housing, while detailing the characteristics of adequate housing and the implications of overcrowding. Additionally, it addresses the needs that housing should fulfill and defines terms related to substandard housing conditions.

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Housing

The document discusses the relationship between housing and health, emphasizing the importance of environmental health factors that affect human well-being. It outlines the components of environmental health, including safe water, sewage treatment, and proper housing, while detailing the characteristics of adequate housing and the implications of overcrowding. Additionally, it addresses the needs that housing should fulfill and defines terms related to substandard housing conditions.

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HOUSING AND HEALTH

Environment

• Implies all the external factors;


• Living and non-living,
• Material and non-material
• Which surround man, and also the
• Social and
• Economic conditions under which man lives
Environment
ENVIRONMENT ; Is divided into 3

1. Physical: water, air, soil, housing, wastes, radiation, etc.


2. Biologic: plant and animal life including bacteria, viruses,
insects, rodents, etc.
3. Social : customs, culture, habits, income, occupation, religion,
etc.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

• the study of all those factors in the environment that can


influence or affect the man’s health
• is the control of all those factors in man’s physical environment
which exercise or may exercise a deleterious effect on his
physical development, health and survival (WHO)
COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

1. Provision of safe and adequate water


2. Proper sewage treatment and disposal
3. Proper disposal of solid waste (refuse)
4. Food hygiene
5. Provision of good housing
6. Vector control
7. Control of atmospheric pollution
8. Control of noise pollution
9. Prevention and control of radiation
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Provision of good housing
• House; is a man-made physical structure designed to offer
shelter to human being.

• A house should be built to meet the physiological needs of


human beings and sited in a suitable environment that will
enable its occupants to live a healthy and reasonably
comfortable life.
Provision of good housing
• Site;
1. Should be elevated from surroundings
2. Away from nuisances such as dust, smell, excessive noise
3. Away from breading places of vectors e.g mosquitoes and
flies
4. Pleasing surrounding
Provision of good housing
• Walls; Strong and at least 9 inch thick
• Roof; height of roof should not be <10 feet
• Floor areas; at least 100sq. feet for one person and at least
120 sq. feet for more than one person
Provision of good housing
• Rooms; number of rooms should be more than 2 in the house

• Windows; at least 2 placed at a height not > 3 feet above


ground level.
• Window size should be at least 1/5th of floor area.
Over crowding

• Over-crowding: is a situation in which more people are living within a


single dwelling than there is space for, leading to movement
restriction, poor hygiene, rest and sleep difficulty.
• Over-crowding is defined by:
1. Person per room
2. Sex separation
3. Floor space per person
Over crowding
Hence;
1 Room - 2 persons
2 Rooms - 3 “
3 Rooms - 5 “
4 Rooms - 7 “
5 Or more rooms - 10 persons
Over crowding
• A baby or infant is not counted
• Children 1 – 9 years old are counted as ½ person or unit
• If 2 persons over 9 years, not husband and wife of opposite
sex live in 1 room , an over-crowding has occurred.
Housing Needs
• A house should or is expected to provide the following needs;
1. physical needs; light, ventilation, rest, protection from
noise and extreme temperatures and pressures
2. Social needs; privacy, family, community interaction.
3. Health needs; adequate water, excreta disposal, cooking,
protection from insects/vectors.
4. Protection needs; protection from accidents, fire, electric
shock, contagious diseases
Substandard Housing
• Slum; group of substandard houses that are in urgent
need of repairs.
• Squatter; houses that are indiscriminately sited without
proper planning.
• Squalor; group of houses located in a dirty and filthy
environment.
• In reality some of these conditions can co exist in a
particular location
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