Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework

• Main Authors: Steve Rolfe (Author), Lisa Garnham (Author), Jon Godwin (Author), Isobel Anderson (Author), Pete Seaman (Author), Cam Donaldson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The role of housing as a social determinant of health is well-established, but the causal pathways are poorly understood beyond the direct effects of physical housing defects. For low-income, vulnerable households there are particular challenges in creating a sense of home in a n...