A Healthy Environment for a Healthy Mind: Mental Health Risks Attached to Poor Housing among Congolese refugees living in Yeoville, Johannesburg

This article explores spatial inequality as a conceptual framework to understand the link between poor housing, environmental degradation, and mental health. The dire housing conditions are one of the many struggles that refugees face in South Africa. This paper emerged from fieldwork carried out be...

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Main Author: Dostin Mulopo Lakika
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-04-01
Series:Intervention Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas
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Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/intv.intv_38_23
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