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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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Māori cultural concepts and service provision for homeless Māori men [PDF]
, 2010 Homelessness is a pressing issue for indigenous minorities such as homeless Māori men. Their circumstances are more vulnerable in ways, than other homeless groups given that their lives are impacted upon by ongoing colonisation.
Ellis, Kenneth Desmond
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham +1 more
wiley +1 more source
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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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Families' experience of homelessness is typically examined from the perspective of parents during or shortly after a shelter stay. Parents complain about rules, surveillance, crowding, and challenges to parenting in both homeless shelters and in doubling up with other households (sharing the others' homes), and relief when they attain their ...
Marybeth Shinn +2 more
wiley +1 more source
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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Homeless lives in New Zealand: The case of central Auckland [PDF]
, 2008 Homelessness is a pressing and increasingly visible concern in New Zealand. Many people sleeping rough are male and of Maori or Pacific descent. This research focuses on understanding the nature of resilience through the lived experiences of homeless ...
Groot, Shiloh Ann Maree +6 more
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The Made‐in‐Africa Evaluation framework: A decolonial approach to program evaluation
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) framework is a decolonial approach to program evaluation developed by African evaluators over the past 14 years. MAE may be appropriate to community psychologists who practice program evaluation or conduct research in Africa, but little is known about its implementation.
Takatso Sibanda, Robin Lin Miller
wiley +1 more source
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006 In August 2006, concerns were raised across the country in response to the announcement of cutbacks to the federal government's homelessness funding program.[1][1] Advocates for the homeless remain concerned that the current government intends to eliminate federal programs addressing homelessness,
Wendy, Muckle, Jeffrey, Turnbull
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Homelessness kills: an analysis of the mortality of homeless people in early twenty-first century England, 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 This study is the first that investigates the mortality of homeless people for all causes of death at the national level in England. It looked at national death records and matched the postcode given in each of them to the known addresses of homeless ...
Bethan Thomas
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