Housing typologies and asthma: a scoping review

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Table 2 Summary of associations between housing characteristics and asthma

	Locational features			Dwelling features			Occupancy features
	*Residential green space*	*Environmental pollutants*	*Urban density*	*HVAC*^a	*Building type and materials*	*Housing age and state of repair*	*Tenure*	*Crowding*	*Appliances*
*Asthma among children*
Alasauskas et al., 2020 [22]	✓	✓
Apichainan et al., 2022 [23]		✓			X	X	X		X
Brown et al., 2012 [24]		✓
Bukalasa et al., 2018 [25]		X
Delfino et al., 2014 [26]		✓
Hartley et al., 2022 [27]	✓
Hsieh et al., 2019 [28]	✓
Hughes et al., 2017 [29]						✓	✓	X
Hwang et al., 2012 [30]		○	✓				✓
Keet et al., 2015 [31]			✓
Keet et al., 2017 [32]			X
Knibbs et al., 2018 [7]									✓
Kutzora et al., 2019 [34]								X
Liu et al., 2020 [36]		✓
McDaniel et al., 2020 [38]			✓
Middleton et al., 2014 [41]		✓
Nriagu et al., 2012 [43]				○		✓			✓
Schmidt et al., 2014 [45]							✓
Sudan et al., 2017 [46]		X
Sun & Sundell, 2013 [47]				✓	○	X
Svendsen et al., 2018 [48]		✓		○					✓
Tieskens et al., 2021 [49]				○					✓
Wang et al., 2013 [50]		X	X	X	X		X		X
Wang et al., 2019 [51]			✓			✓	X
*Asthma among adults*
Abebe et al., 2021 [21]				✓	X			X	✓
Lai et al., 2018 [35]		○
Mehta et al., 2018 [39]							✓
Norback et al., 2014 [42]				X		X	X	X
Wang et al., 2017 [52]				✓	✓	X
*Asthma among children and adults*
Kim et al., 2022 [33]							○
Mazenq et al., 2017 [37]		✓
Mendy et al., 2019 [40]		✓
Oshikata et al., 2021 [44]							✓

✓ = Association found
X = No association found
○ = Both association and no association found
^aHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems are defined as "the equipment, distribution systems, and terminals that provide, either collectively or individually, the processes of heating, ventilating, or air conditioning to a building or portion of a building" [53]

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