Including the closely related terms poverty, and fuel poverty.
… also has other benefits with respect to the health of the boroughs residents. In 2017, 3,954 households in Watford (10.2%) experienced fuel poverty. This means that these residents may not have been able to keep their homes warm enough at a reasonable cost. This happens when homes are inefficient at retaining heat, income is low, and fuel costs are high. As a result, people can find themselves…
… having to make choices between warmth and food, which has been found to affect physical and mental health. By reducing fuel poverty there should be a reduction in excess winter deaths. This is a measure of the number of deaths that occur through the cold by measuring the difference between deaths that occur in the winter and those that occur in the summer months. During the period between August…
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