Preventing ill-health: MPs to consider impact of poor housing on health
31 August 2023
The impact of poor housing will be explored in the inquiry into how to prevent ill-health. In this second session focusing on ‘healthy places’, MPs will question experts on the relationship between housing and health with questions expected to cover the costs of poor housing to the NHS, the quality of rental properties, indoor ventilation and noise pollution.
- Watch the session: Prevention in health and social care
- Inquiry: Prevention in health and social care
- Health and Social Care Committee
The inquiry is seeking evidence on how housing can be designed to improve people’s health. The session is also likely to consider the extent to which Government plans to create more homes through housebuilding or the transformation of non-residential buildings will help to deliver healthy homes.
The role of ‘healthy places’ is the second theme to be explored by the Committee in its major inquiry into how to prevent ill-health.
Witnesses
Tuesday 5 September at 10.00, Committee Room 8
From 10.00:
- Dr Henry Burridge, Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
- Helen Garrett, Principal Consultant, Building Research Establishment
- Dr Jill Stewart, Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Greenwich
- David Finch, Associate Director, Healthy Lives Team, The Health Foundation
Further information
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