Housing quality is essential for population health and broader well-being. The World Health
Organization Housing and health guidelines highlight interventions that protect occupants …

Improvements in energy efficiency make energy services cheaper, and therefore encourage
increased consumption of those services. This so-called direct rebound effect offsets the …

This paper offers an integrated conceptual framework for the research and amelioration of
energy deprivation in the home. It starts from the premise that all forms of energy and fuel …

Energy poverty–which has also been recognised via terms such as 'fuel poverty'and 'energy
vulnerability'–occurs when a household experiences inadequate levels of energy services in …

Since its publication in the early 90s, Brenda Boardman's Fuel Poverty has been the
reference text for those wishing to learn about this complex subject. In this, its successor, she …

In recent years, awareness of energy poverty has gained increasing attention in European
countries. Comparative country studies can enhance our understanding of the causes and …

Background The well established links between poor housing and poor health indicate that
housing improvement may be an important mechanism through which public investment can …

There is a need for reducing dwellings' energy consumption while maintaining a comfortable
and healthy indoor environment. This review was performed to provide a steppingstone for …

Energy used in dwellings is an important target for actions to avert climate change. Properly
designed and implemented, such actions could have major co-benefits for public health. To …

Millions of homes around the world suffer from “fuel poverty,” commonly defined as the
necessity to spend more than 10 percent of their income paying energy bills. This article first …