The short-term health and psychosocial impacts of domestic energy efficiency investments in low-income areas: a controlled before and after study
Charlotte N B Grey e outros, 2017 · BMC Public Health
Government-funded home energy efficiency retrofits in low-income communities reduced the odds of reporting home problems such as damp, mould, and condensation by 67% relative to controls.
Estimativa · odds ratio of reporting more housing problems (0-6 scale)
0,330 [0,210; 0,520]
odds ratio
p: 0.000
- Desenho
- Diferenças em diferenças. Quasi-experimental controlled before-and-after study
- População
- Adult residents living in low-income, hard-to-heat homes across 24 intervention and 23 matched control areas in Wales, 2013–2015
- Amostra
- 782 · residents (364 intervention, 418 control)
Onde está o número
Results > The impacts of the intervention on the psychosocial outcomes; Results, subsection 'The impacts of the intervention on the psychosocial outcomes', paragraph 1
The number of reported housing problems decreased for both the intervention and control groups, but decreased for a greater extent in the intervention group (OR = 0.33, 95% CI 0.21 to 0.52).
Contexto
What changed: Free home energy efficiency improvements including external wall insulation, central heating upgrades, and gas connections were provided to low-income Welsh communities under the Arbed programme. Comparison: Controlled pretest-posttest comparison with matched non-intervention areas surveyed in winters before and after installation. Limits: Non-randomised allocation, 48% participant attrition, and follow-up occurred only 1 to 10 months post-intervention, assessing only short-term effects.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaTransferências, subsídios e financiamento
- TipoSubsídios
- ResultadoQualidade da moradia
- EixoMoradia
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Lugares do estudo
- Wales · Estado ou região · GB
- Licença
- CC0
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23