COHORT PROFILE Cohort Profile: The Housing Regeneration and Health Study

A cohort comprising residents of a housing regeneration and health programme was created from routinely collected data using a system which allows us to anonymously link housing data to individuals and their health. The regeneration programme incorpor-ating four rolling work packages runs from 2009 to 2014. The main intervention cohort we describe here contains the 18 312 residents of 9051 residences at baseline. The cohort will be followed continu-ously through routine health data (demographics, mortality, hos-pital admissions and general practitioner records including prescriptions) with periodic updates of housing regeneration inter-vention data. Here, we describe the baseline data for the primary health outcomes of emergency hospital admissions for cardiovascu-lar and respiratory conditions and injuries for those aged 560 years. We will compare the health of residents within the homes before and after the housing regeneration work has taken place, and we will calculate the change in health service costs with use of hospital and General Practitioners (GP) services. We will also use a difference in differences approach to assess changes in compari-son with comparator cohorts. These data will be accessible at the end of the study period in 2016. Further information about this study can be obtained from Ronan Lyons