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Understanding homelessness [PDF]
Housing, Theory and Society, 2013 This paper reviews the literature on understanding homelessness. It criticizes approaches that ignore, distort or diminish the humanity of homeless people, or else, add little to our understanding of that humanity. In particular, it rejects what it calls
Somerville, Peter
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1996 Summary The medical literature on homeless people tends to concentrate on their biographic characteristics or clinical problems without enough attention being given to the social and environmental contexts which they have to survive. This article summarises the literature on the role of social factors in the causation and outcome of ...
W, Abdul-Hamid, C, Cooney
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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. +2 more
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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 +3 more
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Dietary intake, nutritional status and mental wellbeing of homeless adults in Reading, UK [PDF]
, 2017 Malnutrition has been reported in the homeless, yet the specific nutritional issues faced by each homeless community are unclear. This is in part due to nutrient intake often being compared with dietary reference values as opposed to a comparative housed
Charlotte Mortin +12 more
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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 +6 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2019 Background Overdose education and naloxone distribution programs decrease opioid overdose deaths. However, no studies of such programs have been carried out in Denmark.
Birgitte Thylstrup +3 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 +2 more
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Joining the 'discretionary homeless' : a reporter's decision to live in a Walmart parking lot and what he found [PDF]
, 2015 textI lived eight months of my final year of graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin as a homeless person, sleeping in my car. I parked overnight at various Walmart store locations across Austin.
Macias, Gabriel, M.A.
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