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Homelessness And Health: Factors, Evidence, Innovations That …

(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 and …

(3 days ago) WEBThe health problems facing homeless persons result from various factors, including a lack of housing, racism and discrimination, barriers to health care, a lack of …

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

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How Homelessness is a Public Health Crisis Harvard Magazine

(3 days ago) WEBAnd because California is where nearly one-third of the nation’s unhoused live, the implications are national. Of the 3,200 homeless people Kushel and her team spoke to, …

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/05/homelessness-public-health-crisis

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Homelessness & Health - Centers for Disease Control and …

(5 days ago) WEBThe Public Health and Homelessness Peer-to-Peer Network is an informal group of state and local health departments, physicians, and local service providers. …

https://www.cdc.gov/orr/science/homelessness/index.html

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Why it’s so hard to end homelessness in America

(4 days ago) WEBKatherine Koh, an assistant professor of psychiatry at HMS and psychiatrist at MGH on the street team for Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, traced …

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/01/why-its-so-hard-to-end-homelessness-in-america/

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Health Problems of Homeless People - Homelessness, …

(5 days ago) WEBHealth Problems of Homeless Families, Children, and Youths. Perhaps the most distressing and dramatic health problems caused by homelesshess are those experienced by homeless families with …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218236/

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Understanding Homelessness as a Public Health Issue

(3 days ago) WEBMay 18, 2022. Homelessness is often viewed as an economic and social issue, but homelessness and the broader problem of housing instability are also matters of public health. “The significance of the relationship …

https://www.publichealthdegrees.org/resources/homelessness-public-health/

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Homelessness and Health: MedlinePlus

(Just Now) WEBSome of the common health problems that people experiencing homelessness may have include: HIV. Lung diseases, including bronchitis, tuberculosis, and pneumonia. Malnutrition. Mental …

https://medlineplus.gov/homelessnessandhealth.html

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Homelessness as a Public Health Law Issue - CDC

(1 days ago) WEBOn any given night, hundreds of thousands of people are homeless in the United States. 1 These people might be chronically homeless, have temporarily lost their shelter, be …

https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/resources/resources-homelessness.html

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How homelessness impacts health - American Psychological …

(7 days ago) WEBThe psychological and physical impact of homelessness is a matter of public health concern (Schnazer, Dominguez, Shrout, & Caton, 2007). Psychologists as clinicians, …

https://www.apa.org/topics/socioeconomic-status/health-homelessness

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Health Status and Chronic Disease Burden of the Homeless …

(3 days ago) WEBConversely, stress and the experience of homelessness may introduce or exacerbate health issues such as infectious disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and asthma. …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477616/

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Health care for homeless people Nature Reviews Disease Primers

(Just Now) WEBHomeless shelters facilitate transmission owing to shared living quarters, crowding and high population turnover, and common health problems in this population …

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

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Homelessness Data & Trends United States Interagency Council …

(5 days ago) WEBState of Homelessness. Homelessness in the United States is an urgent public health issue and humanitarian crisis. It impacts cities, suburbs, and rural towns in every state. …

https://www.usich.gov/guidance-reports-data/data-trends

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Homelessness & Health - National Health Care for the …

(2 days ago) WEBHomelessness creates new health problems and exacerbates existing ones Living on the street or in crowded homeless shelters is extremely stressful and made worse by being …

https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/homelessness-and-health.pdf

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Addressing the U.S. homelessness crisis News Harvard T.H. Chan

(2 days ago) WEBThe homelessness crisis is driven by challenges across multiple systems, according to Olivet, who discussed key findings from the HUD 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment …

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/addressing-the-u-s-homelessness-crisis/

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Individuals Experiencing Homelessness are Likely to have Medical …

(9 days ago) WEBTherefore, people experiencing homelessness often have multiple chronic and other serious health conditions (Healthcare for the Homeless, 2020). In addition to …

https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/individuals-experiencing-homelessness-are-likely-have-medical-conditions-associated-severe-illness-0

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The Complex Link Between Homelessness and Mental Health

(5 days ago) WEBHomelessness and Mental Health. The idea that mental illness alone causes homelessness is naive and inaccurate, for two major reasons. First, the …

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-matters-menninger/202105/the-complex-link-between-homelessness-and-mental-health

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Health - National Alliance to End Homelessness

(4 days ago) WEBHealth problems can cause a person’s homelessness as well as be exacerbated by the experience. Health and Homelessness. An acute physical or behavioral health crisis or …

https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/what-causes-homelessness/health/

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30 People Tell Us What Homelessness Is Really Like

(9 days ago) WEBProduced by Jason Chiu, Danny DeBelius, Alice Fang, Terry Parris Jr., Matt Thompson and Vera Titunik. Packing groceries, bathing in fountains, finding comfort in …

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/10/headway/homelessness-mental-health-us.html

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America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Getting Worse - The New York …

(4 days ago) WEBSupply and demand. No factor matters more to homelessness than access to housing. Poverty, mental illness, addiction and other issues do play roles, but they …

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/briefing/homelessness-america-housing-crisis.html

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Fact Sheets - National Health Care for the Homeless Council

(7 days ago) WEBFact Sheets. The National Health Care for the Homeless Council’s fact sheets answer frequently asked questions about homelessness, medical respite care, policy, and …

https://nhchc.org/understanding-homelessness/fact-sheets/

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Supreme Court to debate whether cities can punish people who …

(4 days ago) WEBHomelessness, they say, is a challenge in terms of public safety and health, not a constitutional matter for courts to decide. A 2019 study found 602 …

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/21/politics/supreme-court-debate-cities-punish-homeless/index.html

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Housing: an overlooked social determinant of health - The Lancet

(3 days ago) WEBFinland's Housing First approach, for example, provides and maintains small apartments to those with financial, mental health, and addiction issues. This approach …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00914-0/fulltext

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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 …

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

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Columbia’s War on Poverty: Homelessness, mental health issues

(2 days ago) WEBA 2015 survey by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that 250,000 people living homeless had some form of mental illness and at …

https://www.yahoo.com/news/columbia-war-poverty-homelessness-mental-084610723.html

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Most Homeless People Have Mental Health Disorders - Medscape

(9 days ago) WEBMost people experiencing homelessness have mental health disorders, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis. In an examination of studies that …

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/most-homeless-people-have-mental-health-disorders-2024a100089h

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Supreme Court appears open to city's crackdown on …

(2 days ago) WEBThe current case centers on the small city of Grants Pass, Ore., which has a population just under 40,000 and is a symbol of just how widespread the homelessness …

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1245575331/supreme-court-weighs-whether-cities-can-punish-unhoused-people-for-sleeping-outs

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Alternative to ERs for homeless, mentally ill NJ Spotlight News

(9 days ago) WEBAcross the country, an average of 774,508 adults visited hospital emergency departments for mental-health-related issues each year from 2018 to 2020. That …

https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2024/04/crisis-diversion-homes-alternative-to-ers-for-people-with-mental-health-issues/

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The inhumane criminalization of homelessness won’t solve the …

(4 days ago) WEBHomelessness is a housing issue, pure and simple. Increasing rates of homelessness result from both economic and policy issues that range from a lack of …

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4641704-the-inhumane-criminalization-of-homelessness-wont-solve-the-problem/

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Homelessness, housing instability and mental health: making the

(3 days ago) WEBHealth problems such as skin ulcerations, respiratory problems, and injuries were the visible indicia of what foretold a shortened lifespan. 7 Less visible but no less dire are …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525583/

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Salt Lake City's Cottonwood Park will get upgrades

(2 days ago) WEBSLC park, known for its expansive dog run and persistent homelessness issues, will get a face-lift In 2022, voters approved millions to improve parks in Utah’s …

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/05/05/slc-park-known-its-expansive-dog/

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The Protesters and the President - The New York Times

(Just Now) WEBWarning: this episode contains strong language. Over the past week, students at dozens of universities held demonstrations, set up encampments and, at times, …

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/podcasts/the-daily/university-protestest.html

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