Evaluation of Healthy Village Based on Sustainable Housing Indices (Case Study: Rural Areas of Kurdistan Province)

The healthy village project aims at creating a suitable village for living and promoting the health of community members through their participation. Housing is considered as one of the important projects of the healthy village. The present study aims at evaluating sustainable housing indices by descriptive-analytical method in Kurdistan province. Findings of the present study indicated that 48 percent of rural settlements in Kurdistan province do not have access to enough sun light, 73 percent of the villages lack safe drinking water, in 82 percent of villages the sewage systems is not covered, and 48 percent of houses are considered as low-durable structures. The analytical results based on the t-test showed that of 22 studied variables, only 4 cases were above the average. Also, the results showed that according to comparative studies with the average figures of the country, the most rural houses of Kurdistan province located in the unhealthy category. Therefore, one of the strategies for sustainable housing is low interest loans and designing houses in accordance to environmental conditions of villages.