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Attacking the public health crisis of hepatocellular carcinoma at its roots
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract As the third most common cause of cancer‐related death worldwide with significant mortality rates in the United States, hepatocellular carcinoma has strong association with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) with a growing at‐risk population from the rise in chronic liver disease from alcohol use and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Hannah M. Lee +3 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Critical Social Work, 2005 Research indicates that homelessness is dynamic and that a significant number of homeless people have experienced multiple episodes of homelessness. This episodic nature of homelessness implies that the issue for such people is not only getting housing ...
Uzo Anucha
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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.
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Canadian Medical Education JournalWe co-facilitated a mandatory community-led experiential learning activity for medical students with the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa that demonstrates the feasibility and positive impact of incorporating community-led learning into the medical ...
Lina Shoppoff +9 more
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Causes of women’s homelessness in Ukraine
Наукові Записки Наукма: Соціологія, 2018 This paper investigates the specific aspects of women’s homelessness in the big cities of Ukraine. Men prevail among the street homeless people, and homeless people are often seen as male.
Daria Popova
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Understanding Homelessness [PDF]
Housing, Theory and Society, 2013 This paper reviews the literature on understanding homelessness. It criticizes approaches that ignore, distort or diminish the humanity of homeless people, or else, add little to our understanding of that humanity. In particular, it rejects what it calls “epidemiological” approaches, which deny the possibility of agency for homeless people, insofar as ...
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THE ASPECTS OF HOMELESSNESS IN THE EXPERIENCES OF FORMER PRISONERS STAYING IN POST-PENITENTIARY AID CENTRES [PDF]
ProbacjaHomelessness is one of the experiences of people with criminal records and its scale is not precisely known. The concept of homelessness and its selected dimensions were explained, as well as the risk factors for homelessness among prisoners and former ...
Katarzyna Lenart-Kłoś
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Youth in Central and Eastern Europe, 2021 The purpose of this paper is indicate the new research directions on reasons of homelessness, especially of young people. The most important question is if knowledge of this reasons we can only repeat or should evolve and consider about the role of ...
Karolina Gajda
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BMJ OpenObjectives Cancer is a leading cause of death in unhoused adults. We sought to examine the association between housing status, stage at diagnosis and all-cause survival following cancer diagnosis at a public hospital.Design Retrospective cohort study ...
Elizabeth Wick +8 more
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