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It is now 18 months since the systematic review of the health impacts
of housing improvement was published. In the review we mentioned that we
had identified a number of ongoing studies of housing improvement tracking
the health effects. Some of these studies were due to be completed by
now. As is common, the analysis and writing up stages of these studies
may have taken longer than hoped and the final reports from these studies
are still awaited. It is hoped that a sufficient number of these will be
available by the end of 2003 to allow us to update this review. We have
already prepared a protocol for this update and registered the review with
the Campbell Collaboration.
For further information about our plans for updating please contact Hilary
Thomson (hilary@msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk)
Hilary Thomson
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests:
No competing interests
09 January 2003
Hilary Thomson
Higher Scientific Officer
MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G12 8RZ
Update of systematic review
It is now 18 months since the systematic review of the health impacts
of housing improvement was published. In the review we mentioned that we
had identified a number of ongoing studies of housing improvement tracking
the health effects. Some of these studies were due to be completed by
now. As is common, the analysis and writing up stages of these studies
may have taken longer than hoped and the final reports from these studies
are still awaited. It is hoped that a sufficient number of these will be
available by the end of 2003 to allow us to update this review. We have
already prepared a protocol for this update and registered the review with
the Campbell Collaboration.
For further information about our plans for updating please contact Hilary
Thomson (hilary@msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk)
Hilary Thomson
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests