Back to top Modern-day homelessness in the United States first arose in the 1980s due to a confluence of events, including demographic shifts, a severe economic recession, divestment in affordable housing, and other policies that weakened the social safety net (, cited under). Ever since, soc...
Examples of rural and regional homelessness may include rough sleeping but in isolated locations away from people, couch surfing due to a lack of accommodation or housing options within the area or living in improvised dwellings such as old humpies or farm shacks that are physically located away...
There are processes and situations that define women’s life paths and place them in extremely vulnerable scenarios. An example of this is homelessness. In recent decades, the study of the phenomenon of female homelessness has made it possible to ascertain the relevance of any form of violence ...
Impacts on the individual, healthcare system, and society may be particularly striking within the veteran population due to the presence of physical and mental health comorbidities. Disease burden is also influenced by a complex interplay between social determinants of health and health disparities. ...
National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, USA Nicholaus J. Christian MD, MBA Homeless Programs Office, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, USA Jack Tsai PhD, MSCP School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, ...
Funding Trial is funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse grant #R01DA058627. The funder played no part in study design; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the report; and the decision to submit the report for publication. ...
We synthesized articles’ findings into 1) barriers/challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness and their providers with CVD management and care delivery (competing priorities, lifestyle challenges, medication adherence, access to care, and discrimination), 2) seven international programs/...
using a PRISMA flowchart [28]. After a close reading of the full texts, two articles were excluded due to lack of relevance (not focusing/mentioning substance use [29]); and not focusing/mentioning homelessness [30]) leaving 62 articles to be included in final synthesis. Again, to ensure...
social or community integration and did not refer to social isolation or loneliness. No exclusion was made based on geographic region or countries, however we excluded studies that focused on people residing in camps due to displacement from war, insecurity, or major natural disasters, as these si...
or not receiving appropriate discharge supports without divulging their housing status [24,33,48]. It was an especially prominent theme for people presenting late with infective endocarditis, which is often seen as an injection drug use condition where they face stigma for returning to drug use aft...