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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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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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Who’s Homeless and Whose Homeless?
Social Inclusion, 2020 What does the persistent construction of ‘the homeless’ and the revitalised term ‘our homeless’ include, imply, and exclude in Swedish political debate? And how is it politically and morally related to other houseless groups in the country? These questions are approached through an analysis of minutes from the Swedish Parliament 2015–2019.
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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 “epidemiological” approaches, which deny the possibility of agency for homeless people, insofar as ...
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Mortality and life expectancy in homeless men and women in Rotterdam: 2001-2010. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: Data on mortality among homeless people are limited. Therefore, this study aimed to describe mortality patterns within a cohort of homeless adults in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and to assess excess mortality as compared to the general ...
Wilma J Nusselder +5 more
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Social support and quality of life among chronically homeless patients with schizophrenia
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic characteristics, social support received, and quality of life of chronically homeless patients with schizophrenia in China. A self-prepared sociodemographic questionnaire, the Social Support Rating Scale (
Jinliang Chen +8 more
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2016 Annual Report on the State of Homelessness in WNY [PDF]
, 2017 The Homeless Alliance of Western New York is the designated Continuum of Care (CoC) agency for Erie County that is responsible for compiling the annual Continuum of Care grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In 2011 this grant
Homeless Alliance of New York
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Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2020 A Review of: Dowdell, L., & Liew, C. L. (2019). More than a shelter: Public libraries and the information needs of people experiencing homelessness. Library & Information Science Research, 41(4), 100984.
Samantha J. Kaplan
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2017 Homelessness Summary Brief [PDF]
, 2018 The Homeless Alliance of WNY publishes reports of homelessness in the five-county region that we serve. The information is from HMIS, departments of social services, and providers.
Homeless Alliance of New York
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Dying without Dignity: Homeless Deaths in Los Angeles County: 2000 - 2007 [PDF]
, 2007 This report is an investigation into 2,815 homeless deaths in Los Angeles County between January, 2000 and May, 2007, based on statistics provided by the Los Angeles County Coroner's office.
Bob Erlenbusch +3 more
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