Theoretical characteristics of the relation between urban housing and the state of health of its inhabitants

Abstract

The current document presents the bibliographic recovery and review from academic
postulates over health influence related to the characteristics of contemporary urban housing.
The main objective from the authors frame on a coherent interpretation of recent theoretical
documents, which attempt to analyze the relationship between the architectural space of
housing and its influence related to harmful consequences over health. Human health issues
are complex, does consist from multiple microsystems all interconnected; therefore, this text
characterize the phenomenon: in the first instance, from a determinism focused on the
description both physical and mental illnesses, and second their relation as a cause related to

the consequences of inhabiting such a living space. This theoretical apparatus exposed is part
of a current research, thus presenting an approximation of housing fundamentals related to
the problems and their impact on the health of its inhabitants.