Social determinants of health have a considerable impact on the health status of individuals. It is also known that being abuse by an intimate partner can cause serious and long lasting negative effects to women’s health. In this paper, we discuss the under-studied possible links between certain determinants of health and woman abuse. While we postulate that in some cases this form of criminal victimization can be an intervening factor between these determinants and health outcomes, we also insist on the complexity inherent to these phenomena. In conclusion, we stress that realizing that links probably exist between social determinants of health and woman abuse should make us more attentive to the potential of various social policy initiatives (in areas such as housing, childcare, and income support or community development) for both improving health, and reducing women’s victimization by intimate partners.