Total, circulatory and respiratory health are all affected by housing conditions (Telfar-Barnard et al., 2011), though “conditions other than respiratory diseases... are less likely to be related to quality of housing” (Howden-Chapman, 2007, p. 6), hence in this literature review respiratory health will be the main focus; the focus is further narrowed to spotlight the student population and student housing conditions. In order to understand how student-housing impacts on stude…