Or they might talk about the non-financial aspects of poverty – overcrowded housing and poor housing conditions".
The local authorities and aid agencies said they were unprepared for the latest wave of refugees, and that an existing camp nearby in northern Iraq was terribly overcrowded, housing nearly 50,000 refugees in a site built for 22,000.
When Society Guardian recorded the desperate plight of migrant workers in the east of England three months ago - from poverty pay under the minimum wage to grossly overcrowded housing - the response was probably not what we expected.
Already, pervasive poverty, high level of illiteracy among women, limited access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation, poor feeding and hygienic practices, overcrowded housing and limited access to quality health services have been adduced as the causes of huge childhood morbidity and mortality in these regions (Tomori 2014; WHO 2009).
There may also be direct causal mechanisms between car/home ownership and health through for example, safer transport, changes in exposure to pollutants (positive and negative) or damp or overcrowded housing.
Some PCPs appeared to have limited understanding of patients' logistical challenges, such as difficulty in managing medications and care within the home, absence of local home-based services, local hospitals/ health services lacking enough palliative care beds and other resources, poverty, overcrowded housing conditions and limited facilities in the localities where Aboriginal people live.
34 36 In turn, the population influx into urban settings led to overcrowding, housing shortages and a deteriorating living environment.
Poorly enforced building codes and overcrowding in houses have resulted in cheap or tasteless alterations to houses that should be designated landmarks, architects say.
Our ethnographic observations of participants' efforts to self manage showed that these were sometimes constrained by poverty, an adverse physical environment (for example, poor housing, overcrowding), major family stress, or serious disabilities related or unrelated to their condition, such as depression or stroke.
Archana Patankar, a researcher with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, says that overcrowding, poor housing, and exposure to multiple types of pollutants has led to a rise in the frequency and incidence of asthma, wheezing, coughs, and loss of breath, as well as cases of allergic rhinitis and chronic obstructive lung disease.
