Cold Housing And Fuel Poverty

Introduction 139
Health problem is important in the world nowadays. People are trying to improve their health by many ways. However, find out the factors that are causing health problems will be easier to guard against and keep away. A household is in fuel poverty if they are on a low income and face high costs of keeping adequately warm and other basic energy services. Fuel poverty is driven by three main factors: household income, the current cost of energy and the energy efficiency of the home (public health England, n.d.). It is important to find out the health impacts by cold housing and fuel poverty which can help people become healthier. This paper presents the finding from research investigating the impact of cold housing and fuel poverty.

Research on fuel poverty and the health impacts of affordable warmth initiatives have to date primarily been conducted using quantitative and statistical methods, limiting the way how fuel poverty is understood. (Grey et al, 2017). The study found that insulating existing houses led to a significantly warmer, drier indoor environment and resulted in improved self-rated health, self-reported wheezing, days off school and work, and self-reported visits to general practitioners as well as a non-significant trend for fewer hospital admissions for respiratory conditions. Insulation was associated with a small increase in bedroom temperatures during the winter (0.5 °C) and decreased relative humidity (−2.3%), despite energy consumption in insulated houses being 81% of that in uninsulated houses” (i.e. a 19% reduction). The in-home temperatures increased in both the child's bedroom (0.57 °C) and the living room (1.10 °C), despite a small, but insignificant drop in overall energy consumption. (Lloyd et al, 2012). The study found that almost half of the survey respondents (47%) felt their home was sometimes cold during the winter; a further 40% felt their home was often or always cold. More than two thirds of respondents (70%) had shivered inside at least once during winter. The key indicators of fuel poverty and cold housing are more likely to be race based on the respondent’s ethnicity and Maori have a large risk. To compare the rise of fuel poverty between living in private rental housing or state-owned housing and self-contained housing show that living in private rental housing or state-owned housing has a larger risk of fuel poverty and cold housing. E-mail interview participants expressed concern about the prevalence of youth cold houses and the desire for government intervention (Stanley et al, 2017). Both