Homelessness and COVID-19: Leaving No One Behind
Annals of Global Health, 2021 The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promotes the “Leaving no one behind” principle and sets goals in areas of critical importance.
Massimo Ralli +2 more
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A practice research study concerning homeless service user involvement with a programme of social support work delivered in a specialized psychological trauma service [PDF]
, 2015 Homeless people are a population known to be highly vulnerable to trauma, in triggering events to becoming homeless and the considerable social isolation, discrimination, and adversity suffered when homeless.
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Tuberculosis and homelessness in Montreal: a retrospective cohort study
BMC Public Health, 2011 Background Montreal is Canada's second-largest city, where mean annual tuberculosis (TB) incidence from 1996 to 2007 was 8.9/100,000. The objectives of this study were to describe the epidemiology of TB among homeless persons in Montreal and assess ...
Tan de Bibiana Jason +8 more
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Impact of housing on the survival of persons with AIDS
BMC Public Health, 2009 Background Homeless persons with HIV/AIDS have greater morbidity and mortality, more hospitalizations, less use of antiretroviral therapy, and worse medication adherence than HIV-infected persons who are stably housed.
Vittinghoff Eric +5 more
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Bartonella quintana in Body Lice and Head Lice from Homeless Persons, San Francisco, California, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Bartonella quintana is a bacterium that causes trench fever in humans. Past reports have shown Bartonella spp. infections in homeless populations in San Francisco, California, USA.
Denise L. Bonilla +4 more
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Cost of health care utilization among homeless frequent emergency department users [PDF]
, 2017 Research demonstrates that homelessness is associated with frequent use of emergency department (ED) services, yet prior studies have not adequately examined the relationship between frequent ED use and utilization of non-ED health care services among ...
Bharel, Monica +4 more
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PTSD, Complex PTSD, and Childhood Abuse: Gender Differences among a Homeless Sample
Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 2019 The current study examined the potential relationship between homelessness, gender, and occurrence of Post-Traumatic Distress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD.
Sabina de Vries +2 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2011 Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. The Airin district of Osaka City has a large population of homeless persons and caregivers and is estimated to be the largest TB-endemic area in the intermediate-prevalence country, Japan ...
Nagai Takayuki +12 more
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Poverty, hunger, and abandonment: representations of the nursing team about homeless persons [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 Objective: to know the structure of social representations of nursing team with regard to homeless persons. Method a qualitative research based on the structural approach of social representations.
Mayara Novais Pereira Zandomingo +5 more
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HOMELESSNESS AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN HILLBROW, SOUTH AFRICA: A SITUATION ANALYSIS
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2015 This study explored the social situation of homeless people with mental illness living on the streets of Hillbrow, Johannesburg, with the view to facilitating action in terms of support services.
Unotida Moyo, Leila Patel, Eleanor Ross
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