These include education, income, job security, working conditions, early-childhood development, food insecurity, housing, and the social safety net.
Increasingly, one got the sense that acting "tough" on this issue was a means of somehow distracting attention from the issues of job insecurity, housing shortages and public service provision that so spectacularly exploded when the Blair government decided against transitional controls on migration from the EU accession countries of eastern Europe.
Housing policy not only affects health by improving housing quality, affordability, and insecurity; housing policy affects health upstream through the politics that shape housing policy design, implementation, and management.
The more I looked, the more I found that not a great deal has changed – an ineffectual parliament, the power of big business and the insecurity around housing.
Socioeconomic and environmental risk factors take into account deprivation, financial insecurity, and housing conditions.
Women tended to have few economic resources, little support and perceived that their options for change were limited because they were "trapped" by structural issues including economic insecurity, unstable housing and a lack of access to quality day care.
The most frequently mentioned personal pressures included addictions, intimate partner violence, and socioeconomic issues such as poverty (e.g., "money problems, lots of debt"), food insecurity, and housing problems or a transient lifestyle.
The causes of chronic diseases are complex and rooted in social and economic structures, tied to social determinants of health such as income inequality, education, working conditions, food insecurity and housing.
Responding women widely associated poverty with key social problems, including insecurity, deprived housing conditions, poor nutrition, unsafe abortion, inability to educate one's children, alcoholism, drug use, crime, delinquency etc.
For Aboriginal people, remoteness of residence is linked to pervasive disadvantage poverty, poor nutrition and food insecurity, poor housing and infrastructure, unemployment, poor education, lack of a political voice and impaired access to services of all kinds, while poor health is reflected in every statistic, including birth weight, hospitalizations and mortality.
In bivariate analyses, children's meal frequency neither varied with maternal education, household food insecurity nor with housing quality (Table 2).
