A Holistic Approach to Healthy Homes: Addressing Health Disparities Associated with Substandard Housing

About the Program

Category: Health (Best in Category)

Year: 2011

Multnomah County Environmental health is committed to looking at public health through an equity lens, with the recognition that empowering communities to take greater control over their own environment is an essential value aimed at reducing and eliminating health inequities. In the last 10 years, Multnomah County has built a healthy Housing program that takes a holistic approach to addressing the health impacts of substandard housing by comprehensively targeting low-income children with asthma; landlords and tenets; doctor and nurses with pediatric asthma patients; lead screening for high-risk children and subsequent home assessments; and policy makers, through various initiatives that address root causes of environmental health hazards.