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Mould and damp health costs are about 3 times those of sugary drinks. We need a healthy housing agenda

  • Written by Rebecca Bentley, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Principal Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
Mould and damp health costs are about 3 times those of sugary drinks. We need a healthy housing agendaBurdun Iliya/Shutterstock

The World Health Organisation has always been interested in housing as one of the big “causes of the causes”, of the social determinants, of health. The WHO launched evidence-based guidelines for healthy housing policies in 2019.

Australia is behind the eight ball on healthy housing. Other governments,...

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