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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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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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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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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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Homelessness and health [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2007
Homelessness is evolving into a national and international crisis. Within developed countries, homeless rates are now believed to approximate 1% of most urban populations.[1][1] In the 2001 Canadian census, 14 145 people were counted as living in a shelter.
Jeffrey, Turnbull, Wendy, Muckle, Christina, Masters   +2 more
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One opioid user saving another: the first study of an opioid overdose-reversal and naloxone distribution program addressing hard-to-reach drug scenes in Denmark

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, Morten Hesse, Marian Jørgensen, Henrik Thiesen   +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, Megan Smith, Otis Warren   +2 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.
openaire   +5 more sources

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, Marcel T Slockers, Luuk Krol, Colette T Slockers, Caspar W N Looman, Ed F van Beeck   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source