Mortality Among People Who Are Homeless

This report’s objective is to educate lawmakers, advocates, and the general public about the problem of hate crimes and violence against people who are homeless in order to instigate change and ensure protection of civil rights for everyone, regardless of their economic circumstances or housing status. Over the past six years (1999-2004), advocates and homeless shelter MORE

This case study exemplifies a public health practice response to the vexing health care challenges confronting homeless people who must struggle to survive on the streets and in shelters. Urban homeless populations suffer disproportionately high rates of premature death. In response to a wave of highly publicized deaths on the streets of Boston during the winter MORE

This article discusses mortality remains high among those with barriers to accessing antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, despite having declined in most HIV-infected populations. The authors sought to determine predictors of death in a group of HIV-infected persons who are homeless in San Francisco. Between 1996 and 2002, quarterly interviews and blood draws were conducted. Hazards of death MORE

This study’s objective was to explore the relationship between housing status, associated social networks and risk factors for heroin-related death. The authors used semi-structured face-to-face qualitative interviews, recorded, transcribed and analyzed thematically by framework techniques at three centers providing services to homeless people in a large cosmopolitan city. Different types of accommodation for homeless people have MORE