Periurban self-construction precary housing model and its benefits in family health

Abstract

Housing habitability conditions are determining factors for adequate family health. Rapid demographic, climate and now sanitary global changes make a priority to ensure that housing, in addition to fulfilling its basic function of refuge, represents a healthy alternative for the prevention and containment of diseases. Otherwise it may become an element of risk that causes chronic respiratory, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal disorders; plus, it can cause stress, depression and anxiety. Poor housing conditions can contribute to viruses like sars-cov-2 become more deadly. In this sense, precarious self-built housing located in peri-urban settlements, where 38.4% Of the urban population in mexico lives, presents technical-constructive, functional, aesthetic and environmental conditions conducive to the deterioration of family health. Thus, an alternative solution to this problem is presented based on an analysis supported by quantitative and qualitative methods, which proposes a collaborative work between the community, universities and the government. The result is an adequate housing model. Its objective is to improve internal habitability conditions of existing homes, supported by diagnostic instruments designed to identify current family health conditions and their relationship with their living space, resulting in a proposal of housing interventions that would contribute to a considerable improvement of the health and life conditions of its occupants.