Money, Prison, and Slavery:Those links touch on the financial benefits wealthy people and large corporations receive from moving a large number of people into the prison system and keeping them there for as long as possible. In the USA slavery never went away, it just moved into the prison ...
Retrieved from: http://disabilitycompendium.org/compendium-statistics/special-education/11-1-special-education-students-ages-6-21-served-under-idea-part-b-as-a-percentage-of-population. U.S. Department of Education. (2014). Consolidated state performance reports. Retrieved from http://www2.ed....
We delimited our focus to respondents residing inoneof two of the 98 Danish municipalities. The two municipalities were selected based on statistics that show a percentage-wise comparable number of young persons in homelessness. However, in this chapter we do not elaborate further on municipal vari...
It seems from Premier Bligh’s website that the funds will be managed by Australian Red Cross. What percentage will they retain in “management or other fees?” The donating public deserve to know. We know that Red Cross run their own “Poverty Relief Appeal” yet know of no meaningful wo...
For descriptive analyses, categorical measures were reported as frequency and percentage, and continuous variables were described as mean, standard deviation (SD), first quartile, median, third quartile, minimum, and maximum. The matched cohorts were compared using SMD, with any value of 0.1 or ...
In addition, concerns such as poor nutrition and sleep deprivation, both of which are characteristic of a homeless lifestyle, can contribute to the development and worsening of the state of many chronic illnesses. Some of the chronic illnesses that are more commonly experienced by the older ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem requiring complex treatment, the success of which depends on biological, social, and institutional factors. São Paulo State (SPS), in Brazil, has a high TB burden. Because of high socioeconomic hetero
When the general public hears the word ‘homeless’ they usually think of the ‘visible homeless. These are the people who are begging on street corners, clearly intoxicated or severely mentally ill. This is actually a very small percentage of total homeless population in any area. The vast ma...
All steps of the review have been con- ducted by two reviewers to ensure quality assurance. Our review also has some limitations which need to be considered. Firstly, the majority of included papers are from the USA and as we only used English search terms, hence it is possible that not ...
Among homeless patients the percentage of unsuccessful outcome of treatment was 57.3 % (OR 6.32, 95 % CI 5.73-6.97, P < 0.001). Loss to follow-up (39.0 %) and death (10.5 %) were the main problems. After full adjustment, our model in the complete case analysis evaluated 36,604 (59...