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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 +3 more
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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 +9 more
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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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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 +6 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. +2 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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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 +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 +2 more
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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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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 +11 more
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