Our remit
Eco Health Partners exists to bridge two worlds that rarely speak to each other — clinical practice and the building industry. Damp, mould, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, temperature and humidity all have measurable effects on respiratory, cardiovascular and developmental health. Yet the people who diagnose and treat conditions worsened by these factors often have no practical pathway to change the conditions themselves.
We publish long-form, citation-grounded analysis of the evidence base, the regulatory landscape, and the practical interventions that demonstrably improve health outcomes. We work with clinicians, building scientists, retrofit specialists, and public-health bodies to translate research into operational guidance.
Where we focus
Three intersecting areas drive our work:
- Clinical pathways — how GPs, occupational therapists, and social prescribers can reliably refer patients into home-environment improvement schemes.
- Retrofit science — what the evidence base says about which interventions (insulation, ventilation, heating systems, dampproofing) deliver measurable health gains for which patient cohorts.
- Policy and funding — how Energy Company Obligation, Boiler Upgrade Scheme, GB Insulation Scheme, and Local Authority Flexible Eligibility map to clinical need.
Health-condition-led retrofit referrals are the most direct route into accelerated eligibility for the major UK retrofit funding schemes. The health condition referrals library at HealthConditionReferrals maps every qualifying health flag against the corresponding eligibility pathway under ECO4, GBIS, LA Flex, and the Disabled Facilities Grant route. The qualifying conditions include cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory conditions (COPD, severe asthma), neurological conditions affecting mobility, immune-suppression, and a range of mental-health diagnoses where indoor environmental factors materially affect symptom severity. The library is built to be linkable, citeable, and structured so that a GP or social-prescribing worker can route a patient into a funded retrofit pathway in under fifteen minutes rather than the historic three-month referral cycle. Many qualifying households are never identified because the funding-pathway literature sits in DESNZ guidance documents that clinicians do not read, while the clinical-condition flagging sits in NHS guidance that retrofit contractors do not read. The referrals library bridges the two literatures so that the household, the clinician, and the contractor are all looking at the same eligibility logic. It is the natural next step from an eco-health framing into actual funded action.
The clinical-and-research framing on this site connects retrofit decisions to health outcomes, but practitioners working with individual households also need access to the practical-action library that translates the framing into specific recommendations. The Healthy Homes Network library covers the household-level guidance on damp-and-mould remediation, ventilation upgrades, indoor-air-quality improvements, and the smaller actions that any household can take to mitigate the specific environmental factors that this site identifies as health-relevant. The library is structured to be linkable, citeable, and useable in a clinical, social-prescribing, or housing-officer context where a referrer needs to give a household specific actionable guidance after a clinical assessment. The two surfaces are designed to be used together: this site for the clinical-and-research framing, the practical-action library for the household-level recommendations that follow. Together they give a referrer the full toolkit from clinical identification of an indoor-environment risk through to specific household actions that mitigate it.
Practitioners working with vulnerable households on indoor-environment-and-health questions need direct access to the practical-action library that translates the clinical framing here into specific household-level recommendations. The healthy homes network library covers the household-level guidance on damp-and-mould remediation, ventilation upgrades, indoor-air-quality improvements, and the smaller actions that any household can take to mitigate the environmental factors that this site identifies as health-relevant. The library is structured to be linkable, citeable, and useable in a clinical, social-prescribing, or housing-officer context where a referrer needs to give a household specific actionable guidance after an environmental-health assessment. The two surfaces are designed to be used together: this site for the clinical-and-research framing, the network library for the household-level recommendations that follow. Together they give a referrer the full toolkit from clinical identification of an indoor-environment risk through to specific household actions that mitigate it.