期刊
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷 296, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114051
关键词
Overcrowding Mental health Depressive symptoms; Housing conditions
资金
- Research Fund Faculty of Economics and Business
- Millennium Nucleus of Social Development - Millennium Scientific Initiative of the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism (Chile)
Research shows that both housing conditions and household overcrowding have negative impacts on physical and mental health. However, there is limited evidence on this relationship in the low- and middle-income countries of Latin America. This study examines the association between changes in household overcrowding levels and the prevalence of depressive symptoms in Chilean households. The findings suggest that an increase in household overcrowding is associated with an increase in depressive symptoms, highlighting the importance of preventive housing policies to address overcrowding.
It has been widely documented that both housing conditions and household overcrowding over time negatively affect physical and mental health. However, scant evidence documents this dynamic relationship in the low- and middle-income countries of Latin America, where housing issues remain a relevant policy consideration. Employing a nationally representative panel dataset of 10,024 Chilean households, we examine whether vari-ation in household overcrowding levels between 2006 and 2009 is associated with the prevalence of depressive symptoms in 2009, measured by the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). The survey allows us to follow households over time to identify those who have experienced variation in overcrowding due to changes in household size or due to changes in housing conditions, which do not occur too frequently over time. We find that an increase in household overcrowding levels (due to a reduction in the number of available bedrooms) is associated with an increase in depressive symptoms, while a constant or decreasing trajectory of household overcrowding over time is not associated with changes in depressive symptoms. These results suggest an asymmetric relationship between household density and mental health over a three-year window and high-light the importance of preventive housing policies to address overcrowding alongside policies to reduce existing overcrowding.
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