Cheshire, Paul, Gibbons, Stephen 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2871-8562 and Mouland, Jemma
(2017)
Social tenants’ health: evaluating the effectiveness of landlord interventions.
SERC Discussion Papers (SERCDP219).
Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
Objectives: To test whether a social landlord can improve health outcomes for older tenants and reduce their NHS usage by simple interventions. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Social housing in five London Boroughs. Participants: 547 individuals over 50 years of age. Intervention: Baseline and two follow-up assessments of individual’s health and use of medical services undertaken by health professionals. In the treated groups, individuals were given health care and support at two different levels. 25 individuals had to be removed from the trial because early assessments revealed critical and untreated health issues. Main outcome measures: Self-reported health and wellbeing ratings and NHS usage. Conclusions: Even simple interventions to a targeted group (older and poorer people), can produce significant reductions in NHS usage. Significant reductions were found for 1) planned hospital usage; 2) nights in hospital; and 3) for emergency GP usage. Well-being scores improved in the most strongly treated group but these were not statistically significant. Perhaps the single most important finding was that the early health evaluations revealed that 4.5% of the total sample – not in the most deprived section of the population – had such severe health problems that significant and immediate intervention was required
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.spatialeconomics.ac.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Spatial Economics Research Centre Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| JEL classification: | C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C9 - Design of Experiments > C93 - Field Experiments I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R2 - Household Analysis > R29 - Other |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2018 16:29 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 19:26 |
| Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86569 |
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