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Disparities in Health Care for the Homeless

(8 days ago) WEBBy providing stable housing to the homeless, the Housing First program decreased emergency service costs by $31,545 per person housed in the program during a 2 year period. The program was also linked to fewer hospitalizations, reduced lengths of …

https://ihpl.llu.edu/blog/disparities-health-care-homeless

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Tackling Health Disparities for People Who Are …

(3 days ago) WEB1. Introduction. Around the world, enormous health inequalities are found amongst people experiencing homelessness. Being homeless is associated with shorter life expectancy [ 1 ], higher morbidity and greater usage of acute hospital services [ 2 ]. People experiencing homelessness are also less likely to access primary and preventive health

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5750953/

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Homelessness And Health: Factors, Evidence, Innovations …

(Just Now) WEBOn a single night in 2023, 653,104 people experienced homelessness in the United States. 1 Minoritized populations—including Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander people and gender and sexual

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01049

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Homelessness and Public Health: A Focus on Strategies …

(3 days ago) WEBGlobally, the problem is many times worse, making homelessness a global public health and environmental problem. The facts [ 1] are staggering: On a single night in January 2020, 580,466 people (about 18 out of every 10,000 people) experienced homelessness across the United States—a 2.2% increase from 2019.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8583397/

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Ending Homelessness and Advancing Health Equity: A …

(2 days ago) WEBThus begins the editorial by Shinn and Richard in this issue of AJPH (p. 378), describing, in the absence of necessary resources, which metrics communities can consider employing to determine how homeless services ought to be allocated.With the widely used tool to assess allocation of homelessness resources, the VI-SPDAT (Vulnerability Index – …

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306704

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Health and access to healthcare in homeless people - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBHomelessness is a multidimensional and complex problem that has a direct impact on health status and access to healthcare. [38] Furthermore, the interactions between homelessness and health are bi-directional and under-studied, and there have been very few qualitative studies. [6] Go to: 2.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9282039/

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Health Care for Homeless Women ACOG

(3 days ago) WEBHealth Issues. Lack of access to health care is a profound issue for the homeless population, with 73% of homeless individuals reporting at least one unmet health need, including medical, surgical, mental health, vision, or dental care or unmet prescription needs 12.As a result, homeless women lack preventive care such as prenatal care, …

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2013/10/health-care-for-homeless-women

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Addressing health disparities of individuals experiencing …

(8 days ago) WEBStudies surveying homeless populations reveal that women and children experiencing homelessness are 80% more likely to have prior experiences of domestic violence compared to those without experiences of violence This aim was chosen due to the severe health disparities present in homeless populations. Much of the current …

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jan.15591

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Homelessness and Health Disparities: A Health Equity Lens

(1 days ago) WEBIn this chapter, we describe a variety of health disparities experienced by homeless people, outline the pathways that link housing and health, and point to promising solutions for enhancing health equity. Wenzel, S. L., Leake, B. D., & Gelberg, L. (2000b). Health of homeless women with recent experience of rape. Journal of General Internal

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-03727-7_3

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Health care for homeless people Nature Reviews Disease …

(Just Now) WEBA growing and diversifying homeless population faces tremendous social burdens and structural barriers to health care that contribute to high morbidity and mortality. Health care for homeless

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-020-00241-2

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Addressing Health Care Needs in the Homeless Population: A New …

(2 days ago) WEBCBPR addresses health disparities and inequities in diverse communities, making it well suited for homeless populations that are socially disadvantaged, marginalized, and stigmatized. In particular, it highlights community resilience, resources, and opportunities for positive growth rather than focusing solely on health problems or other

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018789750

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Tackling Health Disparities for People Who Are Homeless? Start …

(1 days ago) WEBBackground: Homelessness is associated with enormous health inequalities, including shorter life expectancy, higher morbidity and greater usage of acute hospital services. Viewed through the lens of social determinants, homelessness is a key driver of poor health, but homelessness itself results from accumulated adverse social and economic …

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/12/1535

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Health and Health Care Disparities among Homeless Women

(3 days ago) WEBHealth and health care disparities for the homeless are particularly distressing for homeless women. Compared to the general population of women, homeless women's health disparities include higher rates of mortality, poor health status, mental illness, substance abuse, victimization, and poor birth outcomes ( Arangua & Gelberg, 2007; …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084601/

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Addressing Social Determinants of Health Among Individuals

(9 days ago) WEBHomelessness is a complex problem, and the social determinants of health serve as a key factor in addressing and developing comprehensive solutions to prevent and end homelessness. SAMHSA’s 2023-2026 Strategic Plan recognizes the importance of social determinants of health as a lever to achieve its goal of promoting whole-person care

https://www.samhsa.gov/blog/addressing-social-determinants-health-among-individuals-experiencing-homelessness

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Health and access to healthcare in homeless people - LWW

(7 days ago) WEB1. To describe the health status of HP using a social determinants of health framework. 2. To identify barriers and facilitators that affect access to healthcare by HP. 3. To identify and examine the life stories of HP to better understand the complex relationships between health status and homelessness. 4.

https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Fulltext/2022/02180/Health_and_access_to_healthcare_in_homeless.14.aspx

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Health status of women affected by homelessness: A cluster of in

(1 days ago) WEBHealth and health care disparities among homeless women. Women Health (2010) K. Fei et al. Racial and ethnic subgroup disparities in hypertension prevalence, New York city health and nutrition examination survey, 2013-2014. …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378512221002693

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Health and health care disparities among homeless women

(1 days ago) WEBWith data from 1,331 women residing in Los Angeles County California, in one of the largest, most comprehensive studies of the health of homeless women to date, this study examined the health and health care disparities among homeless African American, Latina, and white women. This study further explored if race/ethnicity and other factors …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21170815/

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Homelessness in pregnancy: perinatal outcomes Journal of

(Just Now) WEBPrior studies have examined health disparities in the homeless population . Mental health problems of homeless women and differences across subgroups. Annu Rev Public Health. 1996;17:311–36.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-01187-3

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Tackling Health Disparities for People Who Are Homeless? Start …

(1 days ago) WEBAbstract. Background: Homelessness is associated with enormous health inequalities, including shorter life expectancy, higher morbidity and greater usage of acute hospital services. Viewed through the lens of social determinants, homelessness is a key driver of poor health, but homelessness itself results from accumulated adverse social and

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29292758/

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Recognizing and responding to women experiencing …

(3 days ago) WEBOne study identified that “women as a homeless population have conventionally been left out of societal discourse, Nyamathi A, Leake B, Gelberg L. Health and health care disparities among homeless women. Women Health. 2010; 50 (8):719–736. [PMC free article] [Google Scholar] 22.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7099814/

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Racial Inequity and Homelessness: Findings from the SPARC Study

(2 days ago) WEBHomelessness in the United States is a public health crisis, with at least 550,000 Americans experiencing homelessness on any given night and more than 1.4 million through the course of a year (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] 2018a, 2018b).The most recent Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002716221991040

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Health and health care disparities among homeless women.

(2 days ago) WEBWhat were the Health and Health Care Disparities of Homeless Women According to their Race/ethnicity? Large health disparities were observed among the racial/ethnic subsamples, but the differences often showed whites, rather than non-whites, to be most disadvantaged (Table 2). White women had the highest proportions reporting alcohol …

https://europepmc.org/article/MED/21170815

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