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The Health of Homeless Women [PDF]
, 2016 Examines the health of homeless women, which is an under-researched topic in most European countries. It presents an overview of the available European research evidence on the health of homeless women and the factors that influence homeless women’s access to health services in different national health care and welfare systems.
Wolf, Judith +3 more
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Use of tobacco and related health problems among urban homeless women
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background Smoking tobacco doubles the risk of suffering from tuberculosis. A large proportion of world's population with tuberculosis and tobacco users are from India.
Mithlesh Chourase
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Social Sciences, 2021 Since first becoming a major social issue in the 1980s, homelessness has been a racialized problem in the United States. Its disproportionate impact on Black Americans is primarily driven by structural racism and the limited housing and employment ...
Earl James Edwards
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BMC Women's Health, 2023 Background Homeless women have complex life conditions and are often exposed to violence, sexual exploitation, rape, prostitution, reproductive disorders, survival sex trading, unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Nayara Gonçalves Barbosa +5 more
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Obstetric Outcome in Homeless Women [PDF]
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1990 OBJECTIVE--To characterise the pregnant homeless population booking and delivering at St Mary's Hospital, London, and ascertain whether their obstetric outcome was adversely affected by their homeless condition. DESIGN--Retrospective comparison of demographic characteristics of 185 homeless women booking for delivery with those of housed women booking ...
C M, Paterson, P, Roderick
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Trajectories of women's homelessness in Canada's 3 northern territories [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2015 Background: Repairing the Holes in the Net was a 2-year, multilevel action research project designed to inform the development of culturally appropriate and gender-specific services for northern women who are homeless or marginally housed and who face ...
Rose Schmidt +3 more
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Social Sciences, 2023 Homelessness is a significant and increasing problem in modern Russia, which is admitted mostly by NGOs. In addition, in academic, media and state discourses, homelessness is traditionally viewed as a male phenomenon, and there is a lack of research ...
Evgeniia Nikolaevna Kuziner
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Analysis of contraceptive use among homeless women in Kenya – a case of Nairobi county
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 Many factors influence the utilization of reproductive healthcare services in Kenya. Despite the effort by the government and other stakeholders to improve access and utilization of these services, there remains a major challenge in reaching out to ...
Lydia Cheruto Pkaremba +2 more
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Understanding the Lived Experience of Homeless Women [PDF]
پژوهشنامه مددکاری اجتماعی, 2017 Homelessness is one of the most significant social issues encountered in the modern world in most developed and developing countries and has been expanded more particularly in Iran.
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Profile of homeless people in emergency departments
International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2021 Objectives For homeless people, emergency departments (ED) are the place of medical care and satisfying physiological, safety and social needs. The treatment of the homeless in EDs is a common issue in many countries.
Anna M. Burak +3 more
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