HOUSING AND ENVIRONMENT

Housing and Environment



Table of Contents

BATLEY3

OVERCROWDING AND HEALTH4

THE POPULATION IN BATLEY4

Socio-economic context5

Education5

Employment5

Housing6

Poverty6

SOCIO-CULTURAL BACKGROUND TO THE HEALTH OF SOUTH ASIAN PEOPLE IN BATLEY7

Racism7

Culture9

Language10

Religion11

HEALTH NEEDS OF BATLEY RESIDENTS13

Women13

Men14

Older people16

EXPERIENCES OF HEALTH SERVICES: KEY CONCERNS17

CONCLSUION19

REFERENCES21

Housing and Environment

Community is a group of two or more people who have been able to accept and transcend their difference regardless of the diversity of their background such as social, spiritual, education, ethnic, economical, political, etc. McMillan and Chavis (1986) define sense of community as “a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members' needs will be met through commitment to be together,” Whilst Tönnies (2001) argues that community is perceived to be a tighter and more cohesive social entity, due to the presence of a “unity of will”, he added that family and kinship were the perfect expressions of community but that other shared characteristics, such as place or belief, could also result in a community. From the definitions, it can be seen that community means different things to different people. In general, a sustainable community is a geographic area and includes everything in that area--human and nonhuman, animal, vegetable, and mineral. In some cases, political boundaries such as town, city or county limits might be most useful in delineating a community. In other cases, watersheds or other natural boundaries might be most useful. What is important is that the members of the community be involved in deciding the boundaries of their community and how to make that community a sustainable community.

Possibly the most common usage of the word "community" indicates a large group living in close proximity. Examples of local community include:

A municipality is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a town or village. Although large cities are also municipalities, they are often thought of as a collection of communities, due to their diversity.

A neighborhood is a geographically localized community, often within a larger city or suburb.

A planned community is one that was designed from scratch and grew up more or less following the plan. Several of the world's capital cities are planned cities, notably Washington, D.C., in the United States, Canberra in Australia, and Brasília in Brazil. It was also common during the European colonization of the Americas to build according to a plan either on fresh ground or on the ruins of earlier Amerindian cities.

Batley

Batley is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Bradford, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Leeds and 1 mile (2 km) north of Dewsbury, near the M62 motorway. It has a population of 49,448. Other nearby towns include Morley to the northeast, Ossett to the southeast and Brighouse westsouthwest. After undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century due to the success of the shoddy trade, Batley has more recently undergone a period of ...