Advocates claim that providing permanent supportive housing to chronically homeless people will deliver net savings by reducing the use of jails, shelters, and hospitals. It won't. Rather than focus on costs, we should consider the best way to meet this population's needs....
Background: Homelessness is believed to be a cause of health problems and high medical costs, but data supporting this association have been difficult to obtain. We compared lengths of stay and reasons for hospital admission among homeless and other low-income persons in New York City to estimat...
Homelessness has a human cost. The unique distress of lacking a settled home can cause or intensify social isolation, create barriers to education, training and paid work and undermine mental and physical health. When single homelessness becomes prolonged, or is repeatedly experienced, there are of...
A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless.
Six years ago, U.S. hospitals officially received the ability to document patients' housing status, including housing instability and homelessness. The new "Z codes" reflect an increasing recognition of the role of housing as one of the key social determ
including the homeless, indigenous peoples (Pauly, MacKinnon, & Varcoe,2009) and sex workers (Neal et al.,2014). In fact, the percentage of unmet health care needs for sex workers is nearly three times higher than the general population (Benoit, Ouellet, & Jansson,2016). Sex workers also...
Homelessness adds substantially to the cost of health care services for persons with mental illness in VA, and most likely, in other "safety net" systems that serve the poor. These high costs, along with the prospect of declining public funding for health and social welfare programs, and an...
Homelessness adds substantially to the cost of health care services for persons with mental illness in VA, and most likely, in other "safety net" systems that serve the poor. These high costs, along with the prospect of declining public funding for health and social welfare programs, and an...
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