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Active Tuberculosis among Homeless Persons, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1998–2007
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 While tuberculosis (TB) in Canadian cities is increasingly affecting foreign-born persons, homeless persons remain at high risk. To assess trends in TB, we studied all homeless persons in Toronto who had a diagnosis of active TB during 1998–2007.
Kamran Khan +10 more
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives Evidence suggests that homeless patients experience worse quality of care and poorer health outcomes across a range of medical conditions. It remains unclear, however, whether differences in care delivery at safety-net versus non-safety-net ...
Atsushi Miyawaki +2 more
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Hollywood Homeless Youth Point-in-Time Estimate Project: An Innovative Method for Enumerating Unaccompanied Homeless Youth [PDF]
, 2013 Homeless youth are greatly undercounted in the United States. Census methods for homeless adults are inappropriate for homeless youth; thus, nationally, organizations are determining new methods for counting homeless youth.
Eric Rice +2 more
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Genus, 2021 Homeless people are one of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in developed countries, and their homelessness situation often persists over the long term.
M. Pasqualini, G. Bazzani
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Circumstantial Disconnection: Homelessness and Parental Relationships with Children [PDF]
, 2016 This article looks at homeless individuals to see how they think their residential situation affects their relationship with their non-homeless children. Using a survey of 75 homeless parents in Houston, Texas this analysis finds that homeless parents of
Branham, David, Sr., Holland, Jonathan
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Acta Odontologica ScandinavicaObjective: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the oral-health-related quality-of-life (OHRQoL) and oral health-care habits in a population of marginalized persons in Copenhagen.
Esben Boeskov Øzhayat +4 more
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Web of Failure: The Relationship Between Foster Care and Homelessness [PDF]
, 1995 The purpose of this project is to examine the connection between foster care and homelessness and to determine whether or not there is an over-representation of people with a foster care history in the homeless population. In order to examine this issue,
Nan P. Roman, Phyllis Wolfe
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Toward meeting the needs of homeless people with schizophrenia: the validity of quality of life measurement. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 OBJECTIVE:To provide new evidence regarding the suitability of using quality of life (QoL) measurements in homeless people with schizophrenia, we assess the acceptability and psychometric properties of a specific QoL instrument (S-QoL 18) in a population
Pascal Auquier +6 more
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The demography and disease burden of the homeless shelter population of Tshwane during COVID-19
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2022 Background: Homeless people are a vulnerable population susceptible to physical and mental health care problems. There are, however, limited studies and information regarding the health of the homeless population.
Paul S. Germishuys +4 more
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Youth On the Streets and On Their Own: Youth Homelessness in Illinois [PDF]
, 2001 CCH estimates that over the course of a year, approximately 26,000 youth in Illinois experience homelessness. This is slightly more than reported in a 1985 state-funded study.
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