Health gains and costs

What is the health impact of intervening on facets of housing and how long until health gains accrue?

What is the impact of intervention on health system expenditure?

How does the magnitude of health gain compare with other health sector interventions (e.g. screening programmes, tobacco control, etc)?

What are the costs of the interventions?

Stream Two

Projects:

Health gains assessment of improving housing security for young Indigenous Australians
Health consequences of rental reform: a quantification approach
Health gains assessment of the expansion of the social housing sector.

Journal articles

A Mansour, R Bentley, E Baker, A Li, E Martino, A Clair, L Daniel, Shiva Raj Mishra, Natasha J Howard, Peter Phibbs, David E Jacobs, Andrew Beer, Tony Blakely, Philippa Howden-Chapman (2022). Housing and health: an updated glossary. J Epidemiol Community Health 76 (9), 833-838 E Bourke, S Grimshaw, T Blakely (2023) What is the value of disease expenditure studies? An argument for an international database of spending estimates. BMC Global and Public Health 1 (1), 23
Li, Yuxi & Mishra, Shiva & Wilson, Tim & Bentley, Rebecca & Blakely, Tony. (2025). Quantifying Health Gains and Health System Expenditure Impacts of Eliminating Indoor Mould in Homes. 10.1101/2025.04.13.25325769.
Mishra, S. R., Wilson, T., Andrabi, H., Ouakrim, D. A., Li, A., Akpan, E., Bentley, R., & Blakely, T. (2023). The total health gains and cost savings of eradicating cold housing in Australia. SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, 334, 115954.
P Andersen, A Mizdrak, N Wilson, A Davies, L Bablani, T Blakely. (2022) Disaggregating proportional multistate lifetables by population heterogeneity to estimate intervention impacts on inequalities Population health metrics 20 (1), 6.
Singh, A., Mizdrak, A., Daniel, L., Blakely, T., Baker, E., Fleitas Alfonzo, L. and Bentley, R., 2022. Estimating cardiovascular health gains from eradicating indoor cold in Australia. Environmental Health, 21(1), p.54.
T Blakely, F Sigglekow, M Irfan, A Mizdrak, J Dieleman, L Bablani, P Clarke, N Wilson (2021) Disease-related income and economic productivity loss in New Zealand: A longitudinal analysis of linked individual-level data. PLoS medicine 18 (11), e1003848