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Conceptualizing Homeless Exits and Returns: The Case for a Multidimensional Response to Episodic Homelessness

open access: yesCritical 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
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching compassion through a community-led, experiential learning activity for undergraduate medical students: the Empathy Project

open access: yesCanadian Medical Education Journal
We 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
doaj   +1 more source

Causes of women’s homelessness in Ukraine

open access: yesНаукові 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
doaj   +1 more source

THE ASPECTS OF HOMELESSNESS IN THE EXPERIENCES OF FORMER PRISONERS STAYING IN POST-PENITENTIARY AID CENTRES [PDF]

open access: yesProbacja
Homelessness 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
doaj   +1 more source

Attacking the public health crisis of hepatocellular carcinoma at its roots

open access: yesHepatology, 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
wiley   +1 more source

A survey of homelessness and homeless services in West Dorset: A way forward [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This report reviews the nature and extent of homelessness in West Dorset District Council (WDDC). In particular it focuses on: • exploring current levels of homelessness; • identifying the causes of homelessness within the local authority area ...
Ricketts, Chris   +2 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

open access: yesHepatology, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Association of housing status and cancer diagnosis, care coordination and outcomes in a public hospital: a retrospective cohort study

open access: yesBMJ Open
Objectives 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
doaj   +1 more source

Outsiders Within: Claiming Discursive Space at National Homelessness Conferences in Canada

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2016
Homelessness in Canada is a large and growing problem affecting more than 235,000 men, women, youth, and families per year, in urban, suburban, rural and Northern communities.
Emily Paradis
doaj   +1 more source

The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
wiley   +1 more source

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