Abstract

This study has been carried out in center of Isparta province in order to evaluation the appropriateness of housing health standards of houses and to determine the basic characteristics of inappropriate houses. In December 2005, randomize selected four hundred houses in province center were evaluated in point of building land characteristics, building materials, safe condition, bulk, sunlight and lighting, heating, washroom facilities by using housing evaluation checklist. Distribution of the inappropriate houses was analyzed according to the descriptive characteristics of houses. Descriptive statistics, chi-square and independent t test were used for statistical analyses of data. There was a built blockage of sunlight near 38.5% of houses. Approximately half of them whose windows were not appropriate location to take adequate sunlight. Frequently rental houses or house whose resident have low socioeconomic status were not built using building materials of good quality (p

Key words: house, health, standarts

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