ISBN: 9781405116695    Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHER Year of publishing: 2003     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 228        Language: English

Psychological and social processes that connect health with housing come into focus in this collection of original papers. Eminent European and North American scholars provide conceptual and analytical tools useful for further enhancing our understanding of the relations among housing residence and health. Features articles by eminent European and North American scholars which investigate the psychological and social processes that connect health with housing. Explores how social ecological factors set the boundaries for the activities individuals engage in regarding their health and housing. Provides conceptual and analytical tools to further enhance understanding of the relationships between housing residence and health.
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Terry Hartig is an Associate Professor of Psychology with the Institute for Housing and Urban Research and the Department of Psychology of Uppsala University. He completed graduate training in social ecology at the University of California at Irvine and postdoctoral training in social epidemiology at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on health values of nature experience restorative environments health in relation to residence and the social ecology of stress and restoration.
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