The house is one of the basic human needs, in addition to clothing, food and health. Therefore, the home must be healthy and comfortable for its inhabitants can work to improve productivity.

Home construction and the environment that do not meet health requirements is a risk factor for transmission of various types of sources of disease, particularly disease-based environment.

In general, healthy homes can be said if meet the following criteria:

* Meet the physiological needs such as lighting, penghawan and adequate space, to avoid disturbing noise.
* Addressing the psychological needs include adequate privacy, healthy communication between family members and residents of the house.
* Meet the requirements of prevention of disease transmission between people in the house with the provision of clean water, feces and management of household waste, free of disease vectors and rats, residential density is not excessive, enough sunlight in the morning, terlindungnya food and drink from contamination, in addition to lighting and the penghawaan enough.
* Fulfilling Terms prevention of accidents arising either because of external circumstances and in the home, among others, the position of border line road, construction of which is not easily collapsed, non-flammable and does not tend to make the occupant slipping down.