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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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Homeless in America, Homeless in California [PDF]

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001
It is generally believed that the increased incidence of homelessness in the United States has arisen from broad societal factors, such as changes in the institutionalization of the mentally ill, increases in drug addiction and alcohol usage, and so forth.
Quigley, John M., Raphael, Steven, Smolensky, Eugene   +2 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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For youth, by youth: a third student-run homeless shelter [PDF]

, 2016
This past winter, the third student-run homeless shelter in the United States came into being. Two recent Harvard graduates, Sam Greenberg and Sarah Rosenkrantz, who had volunteered at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter as college students, saw a need ...
Seider, Scott C.
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Response to “Moving from collaboration to critical dialogue in action in education” by Matusov & Pease-Alverez, 2020

Dialogic Pedagogy, 2020
Here I reflect and respond to the article on Critical Dialogue in Action: “Moving from collaboration to critical dialogue in action in education” by Matusov and Pease-Alvarez ...
Ray Paul Middleton
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Healthcare Cost Reductions after Moving into a Wet Nursing Home Stay—A Case Series

Geriatrics, 2017
Serious alcohol dependence is associated with high healthcare costs, especially when patients have chronic problems with alcohol, dementia and exhibit externalizing behavior.
Henrik Thiesen, Lene Tanderup, Bodil Stavad, Morten Hesse   +3 more
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Examining mortality among formerly homeless adults enrolled in Housing First: An observational study [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Adults who experience prolonged homelessness have mortality rates 3 to 4 times that of the general population. Housing First (HF) is an evidence-based practice that effectively ends chronic homelessness, yet there has been virtually no ...
Byrne, Thomas H., Henwood, Benjamin F., Scriber, Brynn   +2 more
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Homelessness among psychiatric inpatients in North Rhine-Westphalia: a retrospective routine data analysis

BMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background Within the last five years the number of homeless persons in Germany has more than doubled, with many suffering from mental illnesses that require treatment. Whether the mental illness itself led to losing shelter or whether the state of being
Ida Sibylle Haussleiter, Isabell Lehmann, Bianca Ueberberg, Josephine Heinz, Jürgen Zielasek, Euphrosyne Gouzoulis-Mayfrank, Georg Juckel   +6 more
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Effect of an Emergency Department Closure on Homeless Patients and Adjacent Hospitals

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022
Introduction: Homeless and housed patients differ on several emergency department (ED) metrics (emergency medical services [EMS] use, chief complaints, admission rates, etc.). On January 1, 2018, Memorial Hospital (MH), a safety-net hospital in Pawtucket,
Scott Gummerson, Megan Smith, Otis Warren   +2 more
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