- KOREAN
- E-ISSN2982-8007
E-ISSN : 2982-8007
Housing and Health Equity in South Korea: A Review of Empirical Evidence, Gaps, and Future Research Directions
Seo-hyun Kang (Divison of Health Policy and Management, Korea University)
Chaewon Yang (Divison of Health Policy and Management, Korea University)
Abstract
A growing body of research has documented a well-established link between housing and health outcomes. However, in the Korean context, there has been limited attention to how these housing factors are interconnected and for whom their effects are most salient. This paper highlights the need to reconceptualize housing as a multidimensional condition of housing insecurity/precarity. From this perspective, the paper highlights importance of examining how housing insecurity intersects with socioeconomic and demographic characteristics (e.g., income, employment status, and gender) to cause unequal health consequences across populations. Building on this intersectional approach, housing–health research can contribute to the evaluation of housing interventions to determine whether they lead to measurable improvements in health outcomes. Such efforts provide critical insights for repositioning housing policy as a central instrument for advancing health equity.
- keywords
- Housing, Housing Insecurity, Housing Precarity, Health Inequity, Intervention Study
- Received
- 2026-01-03
- Revised
- 2026-01-28
- Accepted
- 2026-02-20
- Published
- 2026-03-31
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