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Permanent Supportive Housing: Evaluating the Evidence for Improving Health Outcomes Among People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness
This report addresses a fundamental question: To what extent have permanent supportive housing programs improved health outcomes and affected health care costs in people experiencing homelessness? The report also describes policy and...
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North America
Supportive Housing and Healthcare Utilization Outcomes State of the Literature
This source discusses the intersection of homelessness and healthcare utilization. According to this literature review, supportive housing can facilitate stronger connections to primary care and more appropriate healthcare utilization by...
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North America
Prevalence and Correlates of Youth Homelessness in the United States
Matthew H.Morton
Amy Dworsky
Jennifer L.Matjasko
Susanna R.Curry
David Schlueter
Raúl Chávez
Anne F.Farrell
Youth homelessness is a serious concern. Evidence shows that youth who experience homelessness are at high risk of exposure to a range of physical and mental health problems, violence, early pregnancy, and early death. However, efforts to...
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North America
The Role of Charity Care and Primary Care Physician Assignment on ED Use in Homeless Patients
HaoWang
Vicki A.Nejtek
DawnZieger
Richard D.Robinson
Chet D.Schrader
ChasePhariss
JocelynKu
Nestor R.Zenarosa
Compared with nonhomeless patients, homeless patients are a special population with more barriers to appropriate access to preventive health care services such as personal, bureaucratic, programmatic, and financial factors. As such, these...
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North America
Moving from Fact to Policy: Housing is HIV Prevention and Health Care
Virginia Shubert
Nancy Bernstine
A growing body of empirical evidence shows strong correlations between improved housing status and reduced HIV risk behaviors, improved access to health care for persons living with HIV/AIDS, and better health outcomes. These findings...
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North America
Homelessness Prevention: The Effect of a Shallow Rent Subsidy Program on Housing Outcomes among People with HIV or AIDS
Lisa K. Dasinger
Richard Speiglman
This paper presents results of an evaluation of Project Independence (PI), a shallow rent subsidy program with services coordination support for very low income people with HIV or AIDS who live in Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay...
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North America
Healthcare Experiences of the Homeless
Bonnie Nickasch
Suzanne K. Marnocha
The objective of this study was to explore the healthcare experiences of homeless individuals and inform providers of the barriers created by the situation of homelessness. This was a qualitative research study using a grounded theory...
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North America
Perceptions of Quality of Life And Disability in Homeless Persons with Schizophrenia And Persons With Schizophrenia Living In Non-Institutional Housing
A. G. van der Plas
 H. W. Hoek
 D. van Hoeken
  E. Valencia
 A. M. van Hemert
Homelessness is common in persons with schizophrenia. It is unclear how housing conditions and homelessness affect their quality of life and their disability. Seventy-six not-homeless and 50 homeless persons with schizophrenia were...
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North America
Health Care and Public Service Use and Costs Before and After Provision of Housing for Chronically Homeless Persons With Severe Alcohol Problems
Mary E. Larimer
Daniel K. Malone
Michelle D. Garner
Chronically homeless individuals with severe alcohol problems often have multiple medical and psychiatric problems and use costly health and criminal justice services at high rates. In this population of chronically homeless individuals...
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North America
SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR): Disability Application Outcomes Among Homeless Adults
Evan M. Lowder
Sarah L. Desmarais
Shevaun D. Neupert
Melissa A. Truelove
The SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) program has been shown to increase access to Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance benefits among homeless adults. However, little empirical data exist on...
Region:
North America
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