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Who Are the Homeless? Numbers, Trends and Characteristics of Those Without Homes in Calgary [PDF]

The School of Public Policy Publications, 2015
In 2008, Calgary was the first city in Canada to institute a 10-year plan to end homelessness. The plan was introduced in part due to the steady and rapid growth in homelessness in the city since 1992.
Ronald D. Kneebone, Meaghan Bell, Nicole Jackson, Ali Jadidzadeh   +3 more
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Development of the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool to identify health-related vulnerability among people experiencing homelessness: Delphi study, Australia

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives In this paper, we report the development of the Homeless Health Access to Care Tool. This tool aims to improve the gap in assessing health need and capacity to access healthcare of people experiencing homelessness.
Jasmine Yee, Lee Jones, Jane Currie, Elizabeth Grech, Erin Longbottom, Ruth Hastings, Amy Aitkenhead, Matthew Larkin, Amy Cason, Karin Obrecht   +9 more
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Trauma and cervical cancer screening among women experiencing homelessness: A call for trauma-informed care

Women's Health, 2021
Objective: Women experiencing homelessness are at increased risk of cervical cancer and have disproportionately low Pap screening behaviors compared to the general population.
Racquel E Kohler, Jill S Roncarati, Anastasia Aguiar, Pritha Chatterjee, Jessie Gaeta, Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Cassis Henry   +6 more
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Bringing it All Together: Integrating Services to Address Homelessness [PDF]

The School of Public Policy Publications, 2019
Homeless-serving systems are striving for greater impact and efficiency amidst austerity. Those with lived experience, governments, funders, and service providers have consistently and increasingly called for enhanced integration across services ...
Alina Turner, Diana Krecsy
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PrEP disclosure and discussions within social networks of people who inject drugs experiencing homelessness: a brief report

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background In the context of increasing injection-related HIV outbreaks across the United States, particularly among people who inject drugs (PWID) experiencing homelessness, there is an urgent need to expand access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for
Leah C. Shaw, Katie B. Biello, Seamus Vahey, Jennifer K. Brody, Angela R. Bazzi   +4 more
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Evaluation of Functional Cognition in People Experiencing Homelessness: A Scoping Review

International Journal on Homelessness, 2023
The identified prevalence of cognitive impairment in people experiencing homelessness has placed a focus on the use of measures of cognition to predict functioning and ability to move successfully into housing.
Caitlin Synovec, Leonie Boland, Lee Westover   +2 more
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Using administrative data to inform operational and policy developments relating to family homelessness in the Dublin Region

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Background Since 2014 Ireland has seen an unprecedented growth in the number of families being accommodated in emergency accommodation, particularly in the Dublin Region.
Holly Morrin, Bernie O'Donoghue Hynes
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Pharmacist led homeless outreach engagement and non-medical independent prescribing (Rx) (PHOENIx) intervention for people experiencing homelessness: a non- randomised feasibility study

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Homelessness and associated mortality and multimorbidity rates are increasing. Systematic reviews have demonstrated a lack of complex interventions that decrease unscheduled emergency health services utilisation or increase scheduled care ...
Richard Lowrie, Kate Stock, Sharon Lucey, Megan Knapp, Andrea Williamson, Margaret Montgomery, Cian Lombard, Donogh Maguire, Rachael Allan, Rebecca Blair, Vibhu Paudyal, Frances S. Mair   +11 more
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Baseline characteristics of people experiencing homelessness with a recent drug overdose in the PHOENIx pilot randomised controlled trial

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Drug-related deaths in Scotland are the highest in Europe. Half of all deaths in people experiencing homelessness are drug related, yet we know little about the unmet health needs of people experiencing homelessness with recent non-fatal ...
Richard Lowrie, Andrew McPherson, Frances S. Mair, Kate Stock, Caitlin Jones, Donogh Maguire, Vibhu Paudyal, Clare Duncan, Becky Blair, Cian Lombard, Steven Ross, Fiona Hughes, Jane Moir, Ailsa Scott, Frank Reilly, Laura Sills, Jennifer Hislop, Natalia Farmer, Sharon Lucey, Stephen Wishart, George Provan, Roy Robertson, Andrea Williamson   +22 more
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Using administrative data from a national shared services database to target the delivery of homeless services in the Dublin Region

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Background PASS is a national shared services database that captures live information on service user interactions with all state funded NGO and local authority homeless services.
Bernie O'Donoghue Hynes, Richard Waldron, Declan Redmond, Pathie Maphosa   +3 more
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