social determinants of health

According to the WHO, housing is one of the primary social determinants of health throughit’s ability to influence health in both positive and negative ways (WHO 2022). Access tostable housing and the ability to have a place to call home is a basic human need(Forchuk etal. 2016). However, over the last decade, housing affortability in Australia has beenexperiencing an ongoing decline with women in particular enduring the strain of this