# Affordable, Social, and Substandard Housing and Mortality: EPIPorto Cohort, 1999-2019 (May 2020)

* **Affordable, Social, and Substandard Housing and Mortality: The EPIPorto Cohort Study, 1999–2019**
* By Ana Isabel Ribeiro and Henrique Barros. Published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) on 21 May 2020
* <https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305661>
* **Abstract**:
  * Objectives. To examine the association between residence in different housing typologies and all-cause and cause-specific mortality, and to compare with the 25 × 25 risk factors defined by the World Health Organization. (...)
  * Results. (...) **The association between disadvantaged housing and mortality was stronger than that observed for well-established risk factors such as hypertension, sedentariness, heavy drinking, manual occupation, or obesity**.
  * Conclusions. Disadvantaged housing is a major risk factor for mortality that should be accounted for by health policies and surveillance systems. (...)
* **Keywords**: affordability, social housing, public housing, public health, mortality, hypertension, sedentary lifestyle, drinking, obesity

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**"Bad housing kills" could be the sensationalist but not too misguided headline following the publication of this academic report**, which states that bad housing conditions have a bigger effect in a population's mortality rate than other factors like obesity, heavy drinking and hyper-tension.
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